TY  - JOUR
TT  - UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPIC FINDINGS AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION IN CHILDREN WITH RECURRENT ABDOMINAL PAIN
AU  - Öztürk, Yesim
AU  - Büyükgebiz, Benal
AU  - Arslan, Nur
AU  - Özer, Erdener
PY  - 2004
DA  - September
JF  - Ege Tıp Dergisi
JO  - EJM
PB  - Ege University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1016-9113
SP  - 165
EP  - 168
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
KW  - tekrarlayan karın ağrısı
KW  - çocuk
KW  - H. pylori
KW  - gastritis
KW  - Sydney Sistem
N2  - Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a problem frequently encountered by the pediatricians. In this study, the role of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in children with recurrent abdominal pain was evaluated. According to RAP diagnostic criteria, 64 of 182 children who had been seen in our pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition unit were evaluated retrospectively.  We found “endoscopic gastritis” in 54 of 64 children. Duodenal ulcer was observed 11.1 % and esophagitis in 9.2 % and ectopic pancreas in 7.4 %. H. pylori infection was identified in 36 children (56.3 %). We observed 70 % clinical recovery in H. pylori infected children with RAP after the eradication therapy. The upper gastrointestinal endoscopy must be used more widely in childhood because of the high rate of detection of changes in upper gastrointestinal system endoscopically in our study. The role of H. pylori infection in RAP might be important because high of the clinical response to H. pylori eradication therapy was observed in this study.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/etd/article/343558
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/350097
ER  -