Minocycline-containing Bismuth Quadruple Therapy for Helicobacter Pylori Rescue Treatment: a Real-world Evidence Study

Current guidelines have recommended classical bismuth-containing quadruple therapy including proton-pump inhibitor, bismuth, tetracycline, metronidazole as the empirical rescue therapy. However, tetracycline is clinically unavailable in China and the high frequency of adverse events of bismuth quadruple therapy often result in poor compliance, which limited the applicability of this recommendation. We previously showed that the efficacy of bismuth-containing quadruple therapy with minocycline and metronidazole was not inferior to classical bismuth quadruple therapy for refractory H. pylori infection, though also accompanied with high occurrence of adverse events.This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of four different regimens with minocycline and metronidazole compared to classical bismuth quadruple therapy for H. pylori rescue treatment in a real-world setting.