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On of the most common gasterointrestinal disease is gallstone disease and it's prevalence is 11%-36%in autopsies. If gallstone leads to symptoms and side effect cholecystectomy will be inevitable. Gastric infection due to H.P will cause several symptoms of which dyspepsia and epigastric pain are outstanding .Gall stones also usually causes epigastric and/or right upper quadrant pain. Pain in other abdominal quadrant is less common. In this study we investigated the coincidence of gall stone and gastro intestinal H.P regarding the common symptom, between these two conditions to prevent unnecessary operation. The cases were adopted from cholecystectomy candidates due to gall stone disease [proved by ultrasonography]. The control group were normal people who proved to be gall stone free ultrasonographicly. Serum IgG anti H.P was checked and compared between the two groups. Seventy percent of patients entered into the study which consisted of 35 case and 35 controls. The two groups were not significantly different in age and gender. There were 22 [68.8%] and 10 [31.2%] H.P positive cases in case and control groups respectively. Thirteen [34.2%] and 25[65.8%] cases were H.P negative in case and control groups respectively. Comparing these results will reveal a statistically significant difference[P=0.004]. The relationship between gastric H.P and gall stone in this study supports the role of H.P in gall stone formation. According to our results and the common symptoms of two conditions specially in atypic biliary colic, it seems that in many cases gastrointestinal H.P causes the pain. Prospective studies are recommended
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To define the prevalence of anthracofibrosis in fibreoptic bronchoscopy of highly suspected patients who were likely to have pulmonary tuberculosis but they had three times negative sputum exams for acid-fast bacilli and to determine the association of anthracofibrosis with tuberculosis and prolonged smoke exposure. The fibreoptic bronchoscopy was done in 207 patients; 106 male and 101 female their age was from 15 to 91 years and most of them were referred by the professors of infectious diseases. Exact medical history was taken and specially focused on the past medical history of tuberculosis and chronic exposure to any kind of smoke. Then they were divided into two groups, with or without anthracofibrosis, and then this data was analyzed among the two groups. Anthracofibrosis was diagnosed in 34 cases [19 female, 15 male]. Past medical history of pulmonary tuberculosis was positive in 45 patients [26 males and 19 females] and Seventy one patients [38 female, 33 male] had positive history of prolonged exposure to smoke but, the most common cause of smoke exposure in females was the cooking of bread in the traditional clay oven [92 percent] and smoking in males [96 percent]. The finding of this study suggests that the incidence of active or old tuberculous infection was significantly higher in anthracofibrosis group in males as well as females. Although prolonged smoke exposure was significantly higher in anthracofibrosis group but, this relationship was just true in females