AIM To study the association of Helicobacter pylori infection with chronic antral gastritis in peptic ulcer disease patients and healthy population of Kashmir. METHODS 50 peptic ulcer patients (duodenal ulcer = 46, gastric ulcer = 2 and combined duodenal and gastric ulcer = 2) and 30 asymptomatic healthy volunteers were included in this study. Peptic ulcer was diagnosed on endoscopic examinat...

The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between gastrin producing cell density with antral mucosa, luminal and serum gastrin concentration in antral atrophic gastritis. Our study group consisted of 17 patients: six with mild atrophic gastritis, seven with moderate atrophic gastritis and four with severe atrophic gastritis. None of the patients had type-A atrophic gastritis but ...

Serum pepsinogen I and II levels have recently become popular as indicators of atrophic gastritis in epidemiological studies. Previous studies show a significant association between serum pepsinogen levels and endoscopically diagnosed atrophic gastritis. This study assesses the level of agreement between the degree of atrophic gastritis as assessed by endoscopic examination and by serum pepsino...

Serum pepsinogen I and II levels have recently become popular as indicators of atrophic gastritis in epidemiological studies. Previous studies show a significant association between serum pepsinogen levels and endoscopically diagnosed atrophic gastritis. This study assesses the level of agreement between the degree of atrophic gastritis as assessed by endoscopic examination and by serum pepsino...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Helicobacter pylori gastritis is a risk factor for the development of gastric cancer. The results of several studies indicate that gastric adenomas, which are considered premalignant lesions, may also be associated with H pylori gastritis. However, it is not clear whether there are different patterns of gastritis in these patients compared with patients with gastric cancer or pa...

A giant gastric angiodysplasia causing recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding was found in a 51-year-old woman who had been treated with repeated blood transfusions for severe anemia. At first, no active bleeding source was seen on upper or lower GI endoscopy. The only abnormality found on gastroendoscopy was an irregular, flat, reddish mucosal lesion on the posterior wall of the antrum, which was...

Colonic carcinogenesis is believed to be multifactorial process. In addition to hereditary and genetic factors, environmental factors such as Westernized dietary practice, smoking and alcohol consumption had also been contributed to increase the risk of colorectal cancer. 1 There has been growing interest in the relationship between infectious agents and colonic carcinogenesis. Especially, Heli...

AIMS To investigate the prevalence of lymphocytic gastritis in patients with coeliac disease. METHODS Gastric biopsies from 70 patients with coeliac disease were examined by light microscopy for the presence of lymphocytic gastritis, defined as 25 or more intraepithelial lymphocytes/100 gastric columnar epithelial cells. RESULTS Lymphocytic gastritis was found in seven cases. Positive cases...

o t ( o i a j t n g t t d p s o t r t astrointestinal mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinomas MANECs) are rare tumors and, as the name implies, are haracterized by the presence of both components, exocrine nd neuroendocrine, each one representing at least 30% of he lesion.1 It is unclear if they originate from proliferation f different cell lineages or from stem cells capable of differntiating alo...