Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori

A 31-year-old male presented with a complaint of chronic pruritus with diffuse urticarial wheals for the past seven months. He underwent extensive workup and was found to have positive Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) stool antigen test. He was treated with bismuth subsalicylate, metronidazole, tetra...

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Autores principales: Essrani, Rajesh, Sullivan, Matthew, Shah, Hiral
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31259134
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4528
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description A 31-year-old male presented with a complaint of chronic pruritus with diffuse urticarial wheals for the past seven months. He underwent extensive workup and was found to have positive Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) stool antigen test. He was treated with bismuth subsalicylate, metronidazole, tetracycline, and omeprazole for two weeks. Pruritus and urticarial wheals disappeared in four weeks after therapy was started.
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spelling pubmed-65907302019-06-29 Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori Essrani, Rajesh Sullivan, Matthew Shah, Hiral Cureus Internal Medicine A 31-year-old male presented with a complaint of chronic pruritus with diffuse urticarial wheals for the past seven months. He underwent extensive workup and was found to have positive Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) stool antigen test. He was treated with bismuth subsalicylate, metronidazole, tetracycline, and omeprazole for two weeks. Pruritus and urticarial wheals disappeared in four weeks after therapy was started. Cureus 2019-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6590730/ /pubmed/31259134 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4528 Text en Copyright © 2019, Essrani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori
title_full Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori
title_fullStr Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori
title_short Chronic Urticaria Associated with Helicobacter pylori
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590730/
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