Publications

recurrent abdominal pain and helicobacter pylori infection in children.	recurrent chronic upper abdominal pain is a common problem in children and it has been associated with helicobacter pylori gastritis.	1999	10555426
accuracy of non-invasive 13c-urea breath test compared to invasive tests for helicobacter pylori detection.	to compare the sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value (ppv) of histology, campylobacter-like organism (clo) test, culture and 13c-urea breath test (ubt) for the diagnosis of helicobacter pylori infection.	2007	17288853
frequency of helicobacter pylori infection among symptomatic patients of rawalpindi and islamabad, pakistan.		2011	21419035
frequency of helicobacter pylori infection using 13c-ubt in asymptomatic individuals of barakaho, islamabad, pakistan.	high frequency of helicobacter (h.) pylori infection has been reported in pakistan mainly for dyspeptic patients, while the published data is inadequate regarding asymptomatic population. the non-invasive 13c urea breath test (ubt) was used to determine the frequency of h. pylori infection in 516 asymptomatic individuals and to find out its association with gender and age. overall prevalence was 74.4% (384/516) while 63.5% (113/178) children were positive for 13c-ubt and the percentage increased ...	2011	21712001
rate of active helicobacter pylori infection among symptomatic patients of pakistan.	only few epidemiological studies have examined the rate of active h. pylori infection in the symptomatic population in pakistan. this retrospective study presents the laboratory data collected during the past 13 years (2002 to 2015) from 2315 symptomatic patients referred to the breathmat lab, nuclear medicine, oncology and radiotherapy institute, islamabad for the diagnosis of active h. pylori infection using the (13)c urea breath test. rate of infection and its association with gender and age ...	2017	28413207