Paradigm shift in the management of patients with <i>H. pylori</i> infection

Abstract

pylori infection is widespread throughout the world. It causes chronic progressive stomach disease and is associated with conditions such as chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer. H. pylori-associated gastritis is an infectious disease. The main route of transmission is intra-familial. The new strategy of “screening and treating all family members” in regions with a high prevalence of H. pylori, including Russia, is cost-effective and aimed at reducing the risk of infection spreading in the population, progression of changes in the gastric mucosa and the occurrence of gastric cancer.