In this study, the investigators aim to investigate the efficacy of tailored anti-microbial susceptibility guided-therapy via gastric juice PCR, compared with empirical standard triple therapy.
The eradication of H. pylori is an important clinical issue due to its association with many gastrointestinal diseases such as peptic ulcer and even gastric cancer. However, with the global trend of increasing antibiotic resistance, the eradication rate of clarithromycin-based standard triple therapy has declined to less than 80%. To overcome such alarming antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial susceptibility-guided therapy is recommended. However, the literature on gastric juice PCR as susceptibility-guided therapy is scant; therefore, the investigators conducted this prospective randomized controlled trial with the aim of investigating the efficacy of antibiotic susceptibility-guided therapy via gastric juice PCR for first-line eradication.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
182
rabeprazole 20mg B.I.D, amoxicillin 1000mg B.I.D, and clarithromycin 500mg B.I.D for seven days.
The eradication regimen was based on the susceptibility results of gastric PCR. If clarithromycin was sensitive, the regimen contained rabeprazole 20mg B.I.D, amoxicillin 1000mg B.I.D, and clarithromycin 500mg B.I.D for seven days. If clarithromycin was resistant and levofloxacin was sensitive, the regimen was rabeprazole 20mg B.I.D, amoxicillin 1000mg B.I.D, and levofloxacin 500mg QD for seven days. If clarithromycin and levofloxacin were both resistant, the regimen was either reverse-hybrid therapy (rabeprazole 20mg B.I.D x 14 days, amoxicillin 1000mg B.I.D, x 14 days, clarithromycin 500mg B.I.D for 7 days, and metronidazole 500mg B.I.D for 7 days) or high dose dual therapy (rabeprazole 20mg Q.I.D and amoxicillin 1000mg Q.I.D for 14 days). Owing to this open design, either reverse-hybrid therapy or high dose dual therapy was chosen by doctors' preference.
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The rate of H.pylori eradication
Four-to-six weeks after treatment, all patients received the 13C-urea breath test to confirm H. pylori infection status.
Time frame: 6 weeks
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