Coincidence symptomatic gall stone and helicobacter pylori: a brief report

On of the most common gasterointrestinal disease is gallstone disease and it`s prevalence is 11%-36%in autopsies. If gallstone leads to symptoms and side effect cholecystectomy will be inevitable. Gastric infection due to H. P will cause several symptoms of which dyspepsia and epigastric pain are outstanding. Gall stones also usually causes epigastric and/or right upper quadrant pain. Pain in other abdominal quadrant is less common. In this study we investigated the coincidence of gall stone and gastro intestinal H. P regarding the common symptom، between these two conditions to prevent unnecessary operation. The cases were adopted from cholecystectomy candidates due to gall stone disease (proved by ultrasonography). The control group were normal people who proved to be gall stone free ultrasonographicly. Serum IgG anti H. P was checked and compared between the two groups. Seventy percent of patients entered into the study which consisted of 35 case and 35 controls. The two groups were not significantly different in age and gender. There were 22 (68. 8%) and 10 (31. 2%) H. P positive cases in case and control groups respectively. Thirteen (34. 2%) and 25 (65. 8%) cases were H. P negative in case and control groups respectively. Comparing these results will reveal a statistically significant difference (P=0. 004). The relationship between gastric H. P and gall stone in this study supports the role of H. P in gall stone formation. According to our results and the common symptoms of two conditions specially in atypic biliary colic، it seems that in many cases gastrointestinal H. P causes the pain. Prospective studies are recommended.