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KMID : 0384320080290100788
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine
2008 Volume.29 No. 10 p.788 ~ p.794
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Validity of 38 mg Low Dose 13C-Urea Breath Test for the Diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori Infection
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Lee Yong-Jin
Oh Jung-Eun
Nam Hae-Seon
Kim Yong-Bae
Jang Eun-Chul
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Abstract
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Background: To assess the diagnostic value of 13C-UBT using capsulated 38 mg low dose for H. pylori infection, we investigated the sensitivity and specificity of 13C-UBT and to suggest the optimal positive cut-off value of DOB20 in 13C-UBT using ROC analysis.
Methods: The study subjects were 76 healthy individuals (males; 52, females; 24) who visited a health promotion center at a university hospital between July 2005 and June 2007. We tested for H. pylori infection by 38 mg low dose 13C-UBT and histology. We measured the expiratory 13C- urea concentration of basal and 20 minutes value after oral ingestion of 38 mg 13C- labelled urea with capsulated. The breath samples were analysed by gas chromatograph isotope ratio mass spectrometer and expressed as units of delta.
Results: Fifty subjects (65.8%) were H. pylori positive as judged from histology. ROC analysis showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.943 (95% confidence interval: 0.891∼0.995), indicating an excellent classification performance of the model. The sensitivity of 96%, specificity of 85% were achieved at the optimal cut-off value of DOB20 which was 1.39. The 38 mg low dose 13C-UBT was a non-invasive, simple, short-time required and highly accurate method.
Conclusion: The results suggested that capsulated 38 mg low dose 13C-UBT is considered more in term of accuracy, costeffectiveness and convenient method for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection. Further long-term research and meta analysis based on large-scale investigations is needed to establish a standardized testing method in creating protocol of 13C-UBT.
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KEYWORD
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H. pylori infection, 38 mg low dose 13C-urea breath test, validity
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