Reverse hybrid therapy achieves a higher eradication rate than triple therapy plus bismuth therapy remains unanswered.
With the rising prevalence of antimicrobial resistance, the failure rate of the 7-day standard triple therapy has declined to unacceptable level (\<80%) worldwide. Several regimens were suggested to replace standard triple therapy in the area with high clarithromycin resistance, including sequential therapy, concomitant therapy, hybrid therapy and bismuth containing quadruple therapy. A 14-day hybrid therapy invented by our study group appears very promising in H. pylori eradication, achieving eradication rates of 95%. A clinical trial by Hsu et al from our hospital showed 12-day reverse hybrid therapy also achieved high eradication rate, and improved the compliance of patients. Even prolong the treatment duration of standard triple therapy from 7 days to 12 days, the efficacy of eradication was still \< 90% (85-88%). The limitation of triple therapy in against resistant-stains was still existed. The addition of bismuth (triple therapy plus bismuth) can improve cure rates despite a high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance. The major bismuth effect is to add an additional 30%-40% to the success with resistant infections. However the direct compare the efficacy between 10-day reverse hybrid therapy and 10-day triple therapy plus bismuth is still insufficiency in Taiwan and worldwide. Choosing a navel therapy or a modifying triple therapy can get better efficacy, it is remained to be determined. Besides genotyping polymorphism of CYP2C19 influenced the metabolism of proton pump inhibit, and could cause decreasing of eradication rate of standard triple therapy. But the influence in 10-day reverse hybrid therapy and 10-day triple therapy plus bismuth is unclear.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
440
a 7-day quadruple regimen with pantoprazole 40 mg twice daily, amoxicillin 1 g twice daily, clarithromycin 500 mg twice daily, and metronidazole 500 mg twice daily, followed by a 3-day dual regimen with pantoprazole 40 mg twice daily and amoxicillin 1 g twice daily
pantoprazole 40 mg twice daily, bismuth subcitrate 240 mg twice daily, and amoxicillin 1 g twice daily, clarithromycin 500 mg twice daily for 10 days
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
RECRUITINGNumber of Participants in Which H. Pylori Was Eradicated
To assess eradication efficacy,repeated endoscopy with rapid urease test, histological examination and culture or Urea breath test.
Time frame: sixth week after the end of anti- H. pylori therapy
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