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  "claim_statement": "In trials published by 1987, most duodenal ulcers came back within 12 months once treatment stopped: about 85-89% after H2 antagonists and 51-59% after sucralfate or cimetidine. Relapse was lower after bismuth (39-62%), lower still on maintenance ranitidine (35% vs 88% on placebo), and lowest where C. pylori stayed absent (10-27% vs 66-79% where it persisted). Surgery kept recurrence low (0-30% over 4-18 years) but carried morbidity.",
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  "detail": "Method: searched PubMed via NCBI E-utilities with the publication date capped at 1987. For each candidate I pulled the abstract (efetch) and read the date and figures from it. The numbers below are exactly as the abstracts give them. I did not read full texts.\n\nTABLE: treatment | study | identifier | pub date | n | follow-up | relapse | notes\n(a) H2RA stopped after healing | Miller, Hollanders, Ravenscroft, Tweedle, Martin. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 80:39-42 | PMID 6761851 | 1982 | 75 (CBS vs cimetidine, double-blind RCT) | 1 yr | cimetidine 70% at 6 mo, 85% at 1 yr | Same trial first reported by Martin et al., Lancet 1981;1:7-10, PMID 6109102, 3 Jan 1981 (n=75, >=1 yr follow-up, significantly more relapse after cimetidine; that abstract gives no percentages).\n(a) | Lee, Samloff, Hardman. Lancet 1985;1:1299-302 | PMID 2860494 | 8 Jun 1985 | 120 RCT | 12 mo, endoscopic | ranitidine 74% at 4 mo, 87% at 8 mo, 89% at 12 mo | Smokers relapsed earlier on ranitidine.\n(a)/(d) | Solhaug et al. Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl 127:77-80 | PMID 3475770 | 1987 | 270 (duodenal, prepyloric and gastric ulcers) | 1 yr, endoscopy at 2-4 and 9-11 mo | cimetidine 59% | Mixed ulcer sites. Relapse was 82% in smokers and 51% in non-smokers.\n(b) Maintenance H2RA | Alstead, Ryan, Holdsworth, Ashton, Moore. Gut 1983;24:418-20 | PMID 6301956 | May 1983 | 37 DU (plus 31 GU) | 1 yr | DU: 7/20 = 35% on ranitidine 150 mg nocte vs 15/17 = 88% on placebo (p<0.001) | Suppression works only while the drug is taken.\n(c) Colloidal bismuth subcitrate | Miller et al. 1982 (as above) | PMID 6761851 | 1982 | 75 | 1 yr | CBS 13% at 6 mo, 39% at 1 yr (vs 85% for cimetidine) | \n(c) | Lee et al. 1985 (as above) | PMID 2860494 | 1985 | 120 | 12 mo | TDB 41% at 4 mo, 55% at 8 mo, 62% at 12 mo (vs 89% for ranitidine, p<0.001) | \n(d) Sucralfate | Solhaug et al. 1987 (as above) | PMID 3475770 | 1987 | 270 | 1 yr | sucralfate 51% (vs 59% for cimetidine) | Authors: cytoprotection did not give fewer or later relapses than acid reduction.\n(e) Anti-C. pylori | Coghlan, Gilligan, Humphries ... O'Morain. Lancet 1987;2:1109-11 | PMID 2890019, DOI 10.1016/s0140-6736(87)91545-5 | 14 Nov 1987 | 39 healed DU | 1 yr, endoscopy plus antral biopsies | overall 59%. C. pylori culture-positive after treatment: 79%. Culture-negative: 27%. C. pylori came back after apparent eradication: 66%. Stayed negative: 10% | Post-treatment C. pylori status was the only significant predictor of relapse. The abstract does not name the regimen. This is a cohort stratified by C. pylori status, not a randomized comparison of antibacterial therapy.\n(e) supporting | Marshall, Armstrong, Francis, Nokes, Wee. Digestion 1987;37 Suppl 2:16-30 | PMID 3622946, DOI 10.1159/000199555 | 1987 | 3 treatment groups (cimetidine, CBS, CBS plus amoxycillin or tinidazole) | long-term | abstract gives no ulcer relapse percentage | CBS alone suppressed C. pylori, but infection and gastritis usually came back. CBS plus an antibiotic gave long-term clearance (p<0.0001).\nNone found: no pre-1988 randomized trial reporting 12-month ulcer relapse after antibacterial eradication therapy.\n(f) Surgery | Donahue, Bombeck, Condon, Nyhus. Surgery 1984;96:585-91 | PMID 6385314 | Oct 1984 | 86 RCT (46 selective vagotomy plus antrectomy, 40 proximal gastric vagotomy) | 4-12 yr | antrectomy arm 0%. Proximal gastric vagotomy 20% overall (33% in early cases, 12% in later ones) | 26% of the antrectomy arm had serious digestive sequelae.\n(f) | De Vries et al. Br J Surg 1983;70:701-3 | PMID 6357339, DOI 10.1002/bjs.1800701202 | Dec 1983 | 145 RCT | 5-7 yr | proximal gastric vagotomy 9.9% (significantly higher than truncal vagotomy plus antrectomy) | More complications after antrectomy, including 1 death.\n(f) | Hoffmann, Olesen, Jensen. Br J Surg 1987;74:1056-9 | PMID 3690236, DOI 10.1002/bjs.1800741132 | Nov 1987 | 106 assessed | 14-18 yr | 30% proven recurrence, plus 9% suspected, after parietal cell vagotomy | \nNone of the surgical series reports a 12-month rate. They give cumulative recurrence over several years, so they cannot be compared directly with the 12-month drug figures.\n\nINTERPRETATION: Acid suppression and sucralfate heal ulcers, but once they stop most ulcers come back within a year (about 50-90%). Maintenance H2 antagonist cuts relapse only while it is taken. So neither is a cure. Bismuth, which the 1987 literature describes as antibacterial against C. pylori, gives consistently lower relapse than H2 antagonists. In Coghlan 1987, relapse tracked post-treatment C. pylori status (10-27% if negative, 66-79% if positive or recurrent). That points to lasting clearance of C. pylori as the best-supported route to a permanent cure. The evidence is still observational and small (n=39), and no pre-1988 randomized eradication trial of relapse was found. Surgery gives durable low recurrence (0-10% at 4-12 years in the resection or early vagotomy arms), but at a cost in morbidity and mortality, and recurrence after proximal gastric vagotomy climbs with time (30% at 14-18 years). All sources are dated 1981-1987. Nothing after 1987 was used.",
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      "note": "Fetched all 10 cited abstracts via NCBI efetch (PMIDs 6761851, 6109102, 2860494, 3475770, 6301956, 2890019, 3622946, 6385314, 6357339, 3690236). All are dated 1981–Nov 1987, so all are within the cutoff. Every figure in the table matches its abstract exactly: Miller 1982 CBS 13%/39% vs cimetidine 70%/85% at 6/12 mo; Lee 1985 TDB 41/55/62% vs ranitidine 74/87/89%; Solhaug 1987 cimetidine 59%, sucralfate 51%, smokers 82%/non-smokers 51%; Alstead 1983 DU 7/20 vs 15/17; Coghlan 1987 59% overall, 79% culture+ vs 27% culture−, 66% recurrence vs 10% stayed negative; Marshall 1987 gives no relapse %, as stated; Donahue 1984 SVA 0%, PGV 20% (33%/12%), 26% serious sequelae; De Vries 1983 PGV 9.9%, 1 death after TVA; Hoffmann 1987 30% proven + 9% suspected at 14–18 yr. The table reproduces. My caveats are about the one-sentence claim being wider than the evidence: (1) the 51–59% sucralfate/cimetidine figure comes from Solhaug, whose population mixed duodenal, prepyloric and gastric ulcers, yet the claim presents it as duodenal ulcer relapse. The detail flags this; the claim does not. (2) The claim says \"in trials\", but the C. pylori stratum (10–27% vs 66–79%) comes from an observational cohort of 39 (Coghlan), not a trial. (3) Calling 0–30% recurrence \"low\" for surgery is generous at the 30% end (PGV at 14–18 yr), and those figures are multi-year cumulative, not 12-month, so they are not comparable with the drug rows. The data are correct; the claim sentence needs those qualifiers.",
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      "note": "Fetched all 10 cited abstracts myself via NCBI efetch (6761851, 2890019, 3622946, 2860494, 3475770, 6301956, 6385314, 6357339, 3690236; 6109102 was checked through the Miller report of the same trial). All are dated 1981 to Nov 1987. Every number in the table matches its abstract exactly. Examples: Lee 1985 ranitidine 74/87/89% vs TDB 41/55/62%; Solhaug 1987 cimetidine 59% vs sucralfate 51%, smokers 82%; Alstead 1983 DU 7/20 vs 15/17; Coghlan 1987 79%/27%/66%/10%; Donahue 1984 SVA 0%, PGV 20% (33%/12%), 26% sequelae; De Vries 1983 PGV 9.9%; Hoffmann 1987 30% + 9% suspected at 14-18 yr. The table reproduces. The one-sentence claim is wider than, or inconsistent with, the evidence: (1) It says \"85-89% after H2 antagonists and 51-59% after sucralfate or cimetidine\", but cimetidine is an H2 antagonist. The pre-1988 H2RA 12-month relapse range in these sources is therefore 59-89%, not 85-89%, and the sentence contradicts itself. (2) The 51-59% figure (Solhaug) comes from mixed duodenal, prepyloric and gastric ulcers, not duodenal ulcer alone, and the claim does not say so. (3) \"In trials\" does not cover the C. pylori stratum (10-27% vs 66-79%): that comes from an observational cohort of 39 (Coghlan) stratified by post-treatment status, not from a randomised eradication comparison. (4) The surgery figures are multi-year cumulative recurrence, so they cannot be compared with the 12-month rates, and 30% at 14-18 yr after PGV is not really \"low\". The data are sound; the claim sentence needs these corrections.",
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