Erschienen in:
28.06.2017 | Letter to the Editor
Barrett’s Oesophagus and Oesophageal Carcinogenesis Following Obesity Surgery: Helicobacter Pylori Must Be Eradicated?
verfasst von:
Radwan Kassir, Patrice Lointier, Jean-Marc Phelip, Axel denneval, Nicolas Williet, Olivier Tiffet
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2017
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Excerpt
Anti-reflux surgery has led to decline both Barrett’s oesophagus (BO) and oesophageal high-grade dysplasia, with epithelium normalization in 4% of cases. Risk of gastric cancer is substantially increased by Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection and remains a major prerequisite of gastric carcinogenesis [
1], well over gastroesophageal reflux (GER) (75%). …