Does treatment of sperm with platelet-activating factor improve intrauterine insemination outcome in unselected cases of mild male factor infertility : a prospective double-blind randomized crossover study?
The generalized use of exogenous PAF for the preparation of sperm in unselected cases of mild male infertility does not improve the clinical outcome of IUI.
There is a dramatic improvement in the degree of inflammation and activity scores in the gastric cardia of patients with successful H. pylori eradication compared to those with persistent infection. By fulfilling one of Koch's postulates (i.e., improvement in the disease after cure of the possible etiological organism), these data support H. pylori as being the etiological agent for carditis in this group of patients.