Campylobacter pyloridis in gastroduodenal lesions in chronic renal failure

Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was done to twenty patients with chronic renal failure and biopsy specimens were taken from the antral and duodenal mucosa. The results of those patients were compared to ten healthy individuals with dyspeptic symptoms and normal upper GIT endoscopy, Campylobacter pyloridis were isolated from the antral and duodenal spicemens by culture in six patients out of twenty [30%]. Campylobacter pyloridis were detected histopathologically by silver stain only in the antral spicemens in those six patients, this organism may be an important factor in the aetiology of gastroduodenal lesion in chronic renal failure