Alkaline Reflux Gastritis

Alkaline reflux gastritis: a critical reappraisal

Epigastric pain and bile vomiting as a sequel to the creation of a gastroenteric stoma form a vexing clinical problem as old as gastric surgery itself. In 1881, Wolflerl commented on this association in a patient who had undergone a gastroenterostomy and, shortly thereafter, Billroth2 reported a second case after a gastric resection. Seventy years later, Wells and Welbourn3 provided the first c...

Alkaline reflux gastritis: a critical reappraisal.

Alkaline reflux gastritis: a critical reappraisal

Epigastric pain and bile vomiting as a sequel to the creation of a gastroenteric stoma form a vexing clinical problem as old as gastric surgery itself. In 1881, Wolflerl commented on this association in a patient who had undergone a gastroenterostomy and, shortly thereafter, Billroth2 reported a second case after a gastric resection. Seventy years later, Wells and Welbourn3 provided the first c...

[Reflux gastritis in the intact stomach].

Gastric biopsy specimens from patients who have undergone gastric surgery frequently exhibit foveolar hyperplasia, oedema, vasodilatation and congestion, and a paucity of inflammatory cells as consequences of entero-gastric reflux. Similar, albeit generally milder, changes were found in 47 of 316 (15%) non-surgical patients undergoing endoscopy for dyspeptic symptoms. To relate these changes to...

Atrophic gastritis: Helicobacter pylori versus duodenogastric reflux

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to asses the prevalence of atrophic gastritis in children. We also wanted to compare the clinical manifestation, endoscopic appearance and the degree of the gastric atrophy in children and to identify the possible causes which determine gastric atrophy. METHODS We evaluated 247 children with chronic gastritis (153 female/94 male, mean age 12.32 years...