However, in operated patients endoscopy is often hampered by postsurgical adhesions, sharp bowel angulations, bowel kinking, poor bowel preparation and anastomotic strictures (AS).
Accordingly, in many patients, endoscopy might not be necessary.
In a majority of patients, endoscopy revealed normal findings (N = 314, 58%).
Therefore if H. pylori eradication is desired in such patients, endoscopy, culture and sensitivity-directed therapy seem appropriate.
In these patients, endoscopy is considered to rule out gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic or duodenal ulcer and gastric cancer.
In IBD patients endoscopy was performed after a median of 0.16 months, interquartile range (IQR) [0.03-0.99] months, from TRUS.
In all ulcerative coltis patients and 80% of Crohn's disease patients endoscopy was performed to assess disease activity in the rectum.
(ii) Because all of these patients needed endoscopy, which selected patients with more severe symptoms.
Accordingly, no patient underwent endoscopy solely for study enrollment or other research purposes.
MT carried out the isolation of the H pylori strains from patient's endoscopy samples.
