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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN01756929
Date of registration: 29/04/2008
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: The Chios Mastic Gum Producers Cooperative (Greece)
Public title: Mastic Gum and Helicobacter Pylori eradication: an in vivo pilot study
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Date of first enrolment: 01/12/2006
Target sample size: 42
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN01756929
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial with three arms (Treatment)  
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Countries of recruitment
Greece
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Affiliation: 
Name: Konstantinos    Dabos
Address:  Helenas Venizelou 2 821-00 Chios Greece
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Email: kostasophia@yahoo.com
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients tested positive for H. pylori
2. Adults of either sex aged between 18 and 75 years of age

Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy
2. Malignancy
3. Allergies to pantoprazole, amoxicillin, clarithromycin


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Helicobacter pylori gastritis
Infections and Infestations
Gastritis and duodenitis
Intervention(s)
Patients positive to Helicobacter pylori will be randomised to receive one of the following:

1. Mastic gum 2 g per day for 14 days
2. Mastic gum 2 g per day and pantoprazole 40 mg per day for 14 days
3. Pantoprazole 40 mg per day, amoxicillin 2 g per day and clarithromycin 1 g per day for 10 days

Follow up was two months after the end of the treatment for all study arms.
Primary Outcome(s)
Eradication of Helicobacter pylori, measured at five weeks after the end of treatment.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Helicobacter pylori load in patients remaining H. pylori positive, measured at five weeks after the end of treatment.
Secondary ID(s)
MGHP05
Source(s) of Monetary Support
The Chios Mastic Gum Producers Cooperative (Greece)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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