INTRODUCTION The study aimed at determining the different types of precancerous conditions of the stomach and searches the frequency of Helicobacter pylori in these lesions in patients with chronic antral gastritis in Yaounde, Cameroon. METHODS Five gastric biopsies were performed during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for pathology and fixed in formol 10% before being coated in paraffin. Bo...

A working party presented the Sydney System: A New Classification of Gastritis in Sydney at the World Congress of Gastroenterology in 1990 [1-6]. The discovery of Helicobater pylori by Robin Warren and Barry Marshall in 1982; was the revolution in understanding of gastritis and upper gastrointestinal disease [7]. H. pylori infection became evident as the key factor and initiator of the majority...

Infectious mononucleosis is Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) inducing a self-limiting clinical syndrome characterized by fever, sore throat, hepatosplenomegaly, and generalized lymphadenopathy. Gastrointestinal symptoms of EBV infection are nonspecific and occur rarely. EBV inducing acute gastrointestinal pathology is poorly recognized without suspicion. Careful consideration is needed to diagnose gast...

The faecal blood loss of six alcoholic subjects with normal gastric mucosa, six with superficial gastritis, and six with atrophic gastritis was studied before and during ingestion of 40% v/v ethanol using (51)Cr-tagged red blood cells. No significant change in faecal blood loss was observed in the normal mucosa and superficial gastritis groups but all subjects with atrophic gastritis had signif...

Long standing infection of Helicobacter pylori leads to atrophic gastritis most of the times. Atrophic gastritis most commonly causes Vitamin B12 deficiency. We report a case of atrophic gastritis in a young male in whom no vitamin B12 deficiency was seen.

Selective IgA deficiency is the most common primary immunodeficiency. Gastrointestinal infections, autoimmune diseases and even malignancies have been reported in patients with IgA deficiency. We present a case of a 60-year-old man with selective IgA deficiency, iron deficiency anemia and a normal B12 level that was found to have IgA related gastrointestinal manifestations. Biopsies from the an...

During 8 years experience, 90 cases of diffuse varioliform gastritis were observed (0.3% of examinations). Symptoms suggest either the presence of a gastroduodenal ulcer or of a digestive carcinoma when weight loss is prevalent. The disease proceeds by subacute evolutive bouts with remissions and further relapses. At endoscopy, lesions associate large folds in the fundus and erosive mucosal bul...