Clinical features of cardiac nodularity-like appearance induced by Helicobacter pylori infection

BACKGROUND: infection for the first time, and excluded patients with a history of eradication. Therefore, the prevalence and clinical features of cardiac nodularity remains unknown. AIM: To perform this cross-sectional study to explore the characteristics of cardiac nodularity. METHODS: antibody and the urea breath test or histology. Cardiac nodularity was defined as a miliary nodular appearance or the presence of scattered whitish circular small colorations within 2 cm of the esophagogastric junction. Nodularity was visualized as whitish in the narrow-band imaging mode. We collected data on the patients' baseline characteristics. CONCLUSION: infection.