21.   The second finding is consistent with our previous study showing that the response to pentagastrin stimulation in duodenal ulcer patients is not changed after eradication of H pylori.

22.   Doctors in the past, hoping to avoid endoscopy, sometimes treated ulcer patients with antibiotics without knowing whether the bacteria were present, Hamilton said.

23.   One study of ulcer patients was reported last year by British researchers in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

24.   The panel members expressed concern about aggressively treating ulcer patients with antibiotics without first confirming their pain has a bacterial cause.

25.   Kalloo said most ulcer patients recover quickly and are unlikely to relapse.

26.   Sonnenberg estimates these primary care doctors are using antibiotics to cure about one-third of their ulcer patients these days.