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  "claim_statement": "In the literature published by the end of 1987, duodenal ulcers healed with H2 antagonists and then left untreated relapsed in about 70-90% of patients within 12 months. Relapse was about 40-60% after bismuth (CBS/TDB), about 16-43% on maintenance H2 antagonists (placebo ~72%), and roughly 5-10% per decade after highly selective vagotomy. No controlled 12-month relapse trial of antibacterial therapy had been published, but Coghlan et al. (Lancet, Nov 1987) found 12-month relapse in 10% of patients who stayed C. pylori-negative, against 79% of those who stayed culture-positive.",
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  "detail": "METHOD: I searched PubMed E-utilities with date limits up to 1987 and read each abstract (efetch). All figures below are taken from the abstracts. I did not read the full texts. Every source was published on or before 31 Dec 1987; the date shown is the PubMed publication date.\n\nTABLE: treatment | study | id | pub date | n | follow-up | 12-mo relapse | notes\n(a) H2RA, stopped after healing | Miller, Hollanders, ... Martin DF, Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl | PMID 6761851 | 1982 | 75 randomised (CBS vs cimetidine) | 12 mo | cimetidine 85% (70% at 6 mo) | Same double-blind trial as Martin et al., Lancet 3 Jan 1981, PMID 6109102. That paper reports a significant difference over at least 1 year of follow-up.\n(a) | Lee FI, Samloff IM, Hardman M, Lancet | PMID 2860494 | 8 Jun 1985 | 120 randomised | 12 mo, endoscopic | ranitidine 89% cumulative | Smokers relapsed earlier on ranitidine.\n(a) | Hamilton I et al., Gut | PMID 3512382 | Jan 1986 | 80 randomised | 12 mo | cimetidine 78% |\n(a) | Hallerbäck B et al., Scand J Gastroenterol | PMID 3313677 | Sep 1987 | 143 cimetidine-healed | 12 mo, scheduled endoscopy at 2-4 and 9-11 mo | 71% (26% asymptomatic) | Same trial as Glise et al., Am J Med 1987, PMID 3310625.\n(b) Maintenance H2RA | Liedberg G et al., Scand J Gastroenterol | PMID 3909374 | Oct 1985 | 108 maintained (71 DU, 24 prepyloric, 13 gastric) | 1 yr | ranitidine 150 mg nocte or 100 mg bd 16%, vs placebo 72% (P<0.001) | Mixed ulcer sites.\n(b) | Silvis SE, J Clin Gastroenterol (US multicentre) | PMID 3910710 | Dec 1985 | 126 (60 ranitidine, 66 cimetidine) | 12 mo, life-table | ranitidine 150 mg nocte 16%; cimetidine 400 mg nocte 43% | No placebo arm.\n(c) Colloidal bismuth subcitrate (De-Nol/TDB), stopped after healing | Miller et al. (as above) | PMID 6761851 | 1982 | 75 | 12 mo | CBS 39% vs cimetidine 85% (13% vs 70% at 6 mo) |\n(c) | Lee et al. | PMID 2860494 | 1985 | 120 | 12 mo | TDB 62% vs ranitidine 89% (P<0.001) |\n(c) | Hamilton et al. | PMID 3512382 | 1986 | 80 | 12 mo | TDB 43% vs cimetidine 78% |\n(d) Sucralfate, stopped after healing | Hallerbäck et al. | PMID 3313677 | Sep 1987 | 115 | 12 mo | 68% (vs cimetidine 71%, NS) |\n(d) | Lam SK et al., Gastroenterology | PMID 3557014 | May 1987 | 238 followed | 24 mo | Median time to relapse 12 mo after sucralfate vs 6 mo after cimetidine (p<0.007) | The abstract gives no single 12-month percentage.\n(d) Sucralfate maintenance | Bolin TD et al., Am J Med | PMID 3661614 | 28 Sep 1987 | 50 analysed | 12 mo | sucralfate 1 g bd: 10/24 recurred (~42%) vs placebo 21/26 (~81%) |\n(e) Antibacterial against C. pyloridis | No randomised trial reporting 12-month DU relapse after antibacterial treatment was found in PubMed up to 1987. The search combined tinidazole, amoxycillin, metronidazole, furazolidone and antibiotic* with duodenal ulcer and relapse, 1983-1987; it returned only the two items below. Closest evidence: Coghlan JG ... O'Morain C, Lancet 14 Nov 1987 | PMID 2890019 | 39 healed DU | 12 mo, endoscopy + 2 antral biopsies | Overall 59%. By post-treatment C. pylori status: persistently culture-positive 79% vs culture-negative 27%; C. pylori recurred after apparent eradication 66% vs stayed negative 10%. | The abstract does not say which regimen cleared the organism. This is observational stratification, not a randomised comparison.\n(e) | Marshall BJ, Armstrong JA et al., Digestion 1987;37 Suppl 2 | PMID 3622946 | 1987 | 3 treatment groups (n not stated in abstract) | Not stated | No relapse rate reported | CBS alone suppressed C. pyloridis, but infection and gastritis usually returned after withdrawal. CBS plus amoxycillin or tinidazole gave long-term disappearance of the organism and gastritis. Supporting: Goodwin, Armstrong, Marshall, J Clin Pathol Apr 1986, PMID 3517070 (review); Marshall & Warren, Lancet 16 Jun 1984, PMID 6145023 (bacilli present in almost all DU patients).\n(f) Elective surgery (highly selective / parietal cell vagotomy) | Hoffmann J, Olesen A, Jensen HE, Br J Surg | PMID 3690236 | Nov 1987 | 106 assessed | 14-18 yr | 30% proven recurrence (+9% suspected) | Cumulative over 14-18 yr; a 12-month figure is not given. This works out to roughly 2%/yr on average.\n(f) | Herrington JL et al., Ann Surg | PMID 3741001 | Aug 1986 | 109 | 6-13 yr | 9.2% recurrent ulcer overall | Operated mainly for intractability.\nI found no vagotomy series that reports a 12-month relapse rate specifically. The surgical figures are long-term cumulative rates, so they are not directly comparable with the 12-month rates above.\n\nINTERPRETATION: Stopping an H2 antagonist after healing left most duodenal ulcers to come back within a year (about 70-90%). Maintenance H2 antagonists lowered relapse to about 16-43% only while the drug was taken; placebo arms relapsed at ~72%. So acid suppression healed ulcers without changing the natural history of the disease. Bismuth, and to a lesser extent sucralfate (Lam 1987), repeatedly gave lower relapse after stopping than H2 antagonists, even though healing rates were the same. That difference needs an explanation other than acid. Marshall 1987 offered one: bismuth is antibacterial against C. pyloridis. Coghlan 1987 tied relapse directly to whether the organism persisted (10% vs 66-79%). Surgery achieved durable cure in most patients, at operative cost and with 10-30% long-term recurrence. As of 1987, then, the only non-surgical signal of a lasting cure came from clearing C. pyloridis, but it rested on small, uncontrolled or observational data. No randomised trial of eradication against relapse had yet been published.\n\nCAVEATS: All figures are from abstracts, not full texts. The two bismuth-vs-cimetidine records (PMID 6109102 and 6761851) describe one trial. Liedberg 1985 mixed DU with other ulcer sites. Bolin 1987 excluded 9 of 59 patients as non-compliant.",
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      "note": "I read the full contribution and independently retrieved all 16 cited MEDLINE abstracts and publication-date records through Europe PMC's public REST search (query EXT_ID:<PMID> AND SRC:MED, resultType=core). I also opened PubMed 6761851 and 2890019; some other direct PubMed opens were blocked. Evidence label reviewed is appropriate. All 16 records are pre-1988, though Europe PMC's firstPublicationDate sometimes normalizes the day to 1, so I do not claim independent exact-day verification for every record.\n\nMost numerical extractions reproduce: Miller 39% versus 85% at one year; Lee 62% versus 89%; Hamilton 43% versus 78%; Silvis 16% versus 43%; Liedberg 16% versus 72% with mixed ulcer sites explicitly identified; Bolin 10/24 versus 21/26 with nine patients lost for noncompliance; Coghlan's 39 patients and 59%, 79%, 27%, 66%, and 10% all match the abstract. Marshall 3622946 reports bacterial/gastritis outcomes, without a numerical 12-month ulcer-relapse endpoint, as the contribution acknowledges.\n\nI cannot confirm the claim exactly for two material reasons. (1) 'roughly 5-10% per decade after highly selective vagotomy' does not follow from the cited surgery studies. Hoffmann, PMID 3690236 (1987 Nov), reports 32/106 (30%) proven recurrence at 14-18 years, plus 9% suspected; Herrington, PMID 3741001 (1986 Aug), reports 10/109 (9.2%) over heterogeneous 6-13-year follow-up. These are cumulative proportions at differing follow-up times, not decade-specific rates. Even the contribution's own table contradicts its compressed claim. The 2%/year arithmetic for Hoffmann is not a measured annual incidence or hazard and should be removed. (2) The Hallerback/Glise 71% versus 68% row is a mixed duodenal/prepyloric/gastric population, as Glise PMID 3310625 explicitly says. The contribution flags this issue for Liedberg but not this row; these figures must not be presented as DU-specific. Hoffmann likewise includes duodenal, pyloric and prepyloric ulcers.\n\nAdditional precision: Lam PMID 3557014 expressly reports 50% relapse at 12 months for sucralfate, so 'no single 12-month percentage' misses the cumulative 50% point supplied by the median statement. The claim that no controlled 12-month antibacterial trial had been published is stronger than the reported limited search. I have not reproduced that negative literature search and cannot certify absence; 'none found in the stated search' is warranted. Likewise clearing C. pylori as the only nonsurgical signal of lasting cure is too categorical when the same table includes sucralfate remission benefits without bacterial measurements. These are evidence/claim limitations, not scope exclusions. Recommended repair: retain study-specific relapse estimates and horizons, label mixed populations, and state that small observational bacterial-status data suggested a potentially durable benefit without establishing permanent cure.",
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      "note": "Fetched every cited abstract via NCBI efetch (6109102, 6761851, 2860494, 3512382, 3313677, 3310625, 3909374, 3910710, 3557014, 3661614, 2890019, 3622946, 3517070, 6145023, 3690236, 3741001). All are dated 1981–Nov 1987, within the cutoff. The table figures match the abstracts: Miller 1982 CBS 39% vs cimetidine 85%; Lee 1985 TDB 62% vs ranitidine 89%; Hamilton 1986 TDB 43% vs cimetidine 78%; Hallerbäck 1987 cimetidine 71% (n=143) vs sucralfate 68% (n=115), 26% asymptomatic; Liedberg 1985 active drug 16% vs placebo 72%; Silvis 1985 ranitidine 16% vs cimetidine 43% (no placebo); Lam 1987 median relapse at 12 vs 6 mo; Bolin 1987 10/24 vs 21/26; Coghlan 1987 79/27/66/10%; Marshall 1987 and Goodwin 1986 as described; Hoffmann 1987 30% + 9% suspected at 14–18 yr; Herrington 1986 9.2% at 6–13 yr. Problems: (1) The claim puts recurrence after highly selective vagotomy at \"roughly 5-10% per decade\". The cited data do not support that. Hoffmann's 30% proven at 14–18 yr is about 17–21% per decade, and the detail itself says \"~2%/yr\", which is ~20% per decade. Herrington's 9.2% at 6–13 yr is about 7–15% per decade. The claim understates surgical recurrence, and by roughly 2× on the largest series. (2) Hallerbäck/Glise (3313677/3310625) mixed duodenal, prepyloric and gastric ulcers, but the table does not flag this; Liedberg's mixing is flagged. The placebo ~72% in the claim also comes from Liedberg's mixed-site cohort. The drug-row ranges in the claim (70–90% after stopping an H2RA, ~40–60% after bismuth, 16–43% on maintenance) are supported. So is the statement that no controlled antibacterial relapse trial existed, together with the Coghlan 10% vs 79% figures. The surgery figure in the claim should be corrected to about 10–20% per decade.",
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