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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="journal_submission_guidelines">https://www.pimr.org.in/instructions.php</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Perspectives in Medical Research</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2348-229X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">2348-1447</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">07</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi"> 10.47799/pimr.1202.07</article-id>
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          <subject>Original Article</subject>
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        <article-title id="article-title-0285158954694733a7bdd66a77a6f623">Helicobacter Pylori and Metaplastic Changes in Chronic Cholecystitis: A Correlation Study</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="name-3d6279c34d784a9a9068cc11f03a8f78">
            <surname>Alam</surname>
            <given-names>Rabiul</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="name-b651219de55244858dd39f33e34aae99">
            <surname>Sarkar</surname>
            <given-names>Swapan Kumar</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref id="x-d3571e69ffbb" rid="a-bc9fcb33c1dd" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="n-c29cfb66516d">
            <surname>Bandyopadhyay</surname>
            <given-names>Subhasish</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref id="x-f9f3830ae3f8" rid="a-20293fef353b" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="n-581452f9069f">
            <surname>Chakrabarti</surname>
            <given-names>Sudipta</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref id="x-68d99adbf068" rid="a-16b818053416" ref-type="aff">4</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name id="name-0521f6c8801a424c8347fcee08658146">
            <surname>Ghosh</surname>
            <given-names>Suman</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>drsumanghosh123@gmail.com</email>
          <xref id="x-b647b422d217" rid="a-c5ebcab42fdd" ref-type="aff">5</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="a-3efb7e155fcd">
          <institution>Demonstrator, Dept of Pathology,  Murshidabad Medical College &amp; Hospital</institution>
          <addr-line>Berhampore</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-bc9fcb33c1dd">
          <institution>Assistant Professor , Dept Of Pathology,  Murshidabad Medical College &amp; Hospital</institution>
          <addr-line>Berhampore</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-20293fef353b">
          <institution>Assistant Professor , Dept Of Pathology,  Murshidabad Medical College &amp; Hospital</institution>
          <addr-line>Berhampore</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-16b818053416">
          <institution>Professor and Head Department of Pathology,, ESIC Medical College</institution>
          <addr-line>Patna,  Bihar</addr-line>
        </aff>
        <aff id="a-c5ebcab42fdd">
          <institution>Associate Professor and HOD,  Dept Of Pathology, Murshidabad Medical College And Hospital</institution>
          <addr-line>Berhampore</addr-line>
        </aff>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>8</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>12</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>36</fpage>
      <lpage>41</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>14</day>
          <month>3</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>8</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>©2023 (Rabiul Alam) et al. This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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      <abstract id="abstract-abstract-title-95f0bce57d424a1a9583628758d8b054">
        <title id="abstract-title-95f0bce57d424a1a9583628758d8b054">Abstract</title>
        <p id="paragraph-5e5ff3c6d07a4459af531533ac8044f7"><bold id="strong-6a71936308804e8f879283068bf3e7fa">Introduction</bold>: Various types of metaplastic changes, such as gastric metaplasia (foveolar type or antral type) and intestinal metaplasia, are observed in chronic cholecystitis but not in normal mucosa. Helicobacter species can be detected in the bile and gallbladder tissue of patients with benign gallbladder disease. <bold id="strong-326f0e4dd42344ac8132e7f2aed047e7">Objective</bold>: The present study aimed to observe the correlation between chronic cholecystitis and the presence of Helicobacter pylori as well as the different types of metaplastic changes in gallbladder mucosa. <bold id="strong-d20f4cd393c847c5a3628833d9df96dd">Materials and Methods</bold>: This descriptive, observational study was conducted at the Departments of Pathology and Surgery at a tertiary care medical college and hospital from April 2021 to March 2022, using a cross-sectional design. All confirmed cases of chronic cholecystitis, with or without cholelithiasis, were included in the study. <bold id="strong-597e97bebf9e4bfdaee94891352dfb82">Results</bold>: Intestinal metaplasia was the most common type of metaplastic change in the gallbladder epithelium in chronic cholecystitis in this region. PAS and Alcian Blue positivity were significantly higher in cases with metaplasia compared to those without metaplasia. H. pylori was detected in 3 cases (1.55%) of chronic cholecystitis in this study population. <bold id="strong-50c82b4228d546aab2adc244767f95df">Conclusion</bold>: Mucin histochemistry may help identify early metaplastic changes in gallbladder epithelium.  The use of a combination of methods for the detection of H. pylori in gallbladder tissue may increase the detection of positive cases.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Helicobacter pylori</kwd>
        <kwd>PAS</kwd>
        <kwd>Alcian Blue</kwd>
        <kwd>chronic cholecystitis</kwd>
        <kwd>metaplasia</kwd>
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      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement>None</funding-statement>
      </funding-group>
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