Really Rural Surgery

11
JUL
2018

Season 4 – Episode 36 – June 29, 2018

Tags : biopsy, H. pylori, OR nurse, stomach
Posted By : SharonM
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In this episode, Dr. Batchelor answers one of his astute OR nurse’s questions: what is the best way to biopsy the stomach to diagnose H. pylori?

Resources for this episode:

JG Lash and RM Genta. 2013. Adherence to the Sydney System guidelines increases the detection of Helicobacter gastritis and intestinal metaplasia in 400738 sets of gastric biopsies. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 38(4): 424-31. doi: 10.1111/apt.12383

E Lahner, G Esposito, A Zullo, C Hassan, M Carabotti, G Galli, and B Annibale. 2016. Gastric precancerous conditions and Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic patients with or without endoscopic lesions. Scand J Gastroenterol 51(11): 1294-8. doi: 10.1080/00365521.2016.1205129

Listen to the podcast now:

https://podcast.rccbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Episode-36-H.-Pylori-Diagnosis.mp3

 

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