Laboratory and clinical findings of Helicobacter Pylori infection in children

Helicobacter Pylori is one of the known causes of upper gastrointestinal tract diseases in adults, but this causative relationship in children is under investigation. In this cross-sectional prospective research, we studied the clinical and laboratory aspects of H.pylori infection in children who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy from November 1996-January 1998 in Qa’em hospital, Mashhad. Of 59 patients (33 females, 23 males) aged 9.2±2.96 years, 24 were found to be culture positive for H.pylori. The common complaint was abdominal pain (83.1%). Endoscopic findings consisted of gastritis (76.3%), duodenitis (67.8%), esophagitis (59.3%), nodular hyperplasia (13.6%), duodenal ulcer (11.9%), gastric ulcer (5.1%) and erosive gastritis (8.5%) which were culture positive in 42, 40, 40, 75, 57, 0 and 60% respectively