Department of Medicine
Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Department of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Gastroenterology was forever changed in 1982, when Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren successfully isolated Helicobacter pylori from a 70-year-old man with frequently bleeding gastric and duodenal ulcers.1,2
Their success was somewhat serendipitous because cultures from similar patients were negative after