Gastric emptying was compared in patients with gastric cancers and fundal gastritis to determine its value in identifying patients at high risk of gastric cancer. Gastric emptying was measured by the acetaminophen absorption method, and the extent of fundal gastritis was determined by the endoscopic Congo red test. The results showed that gastric emptying was significantly slower in patients wi...

To determine the significance of the endoscopic classification of gastritis proposed by a working party at the World Congress of Gastroenterology in Sydney 1990, 167 patients undergoing upper alimentary endoscopy were prospectively assessed by comprehensive endoscopic and histological methods. Ninety eight patients had endoscopic mucosal changes of gastritis according to the Sydney classificati...

Stomach cancer occupies a leading position in oncological morbidity and mortality worldwide. Approximately 800,000 people die from stomach every year. In two-thirds of patients gastric is diagnosed at late stage, when radical treatment becomes impossible. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection considered as the main etiological factor for cancer. To stratify risk developing an assessment mor...

background: currently, non-invasive methods for screening atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer are lacking. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of serological parameters including serum pepsinogen i (pgi), pepsinogen ii (pgii) and pepsinogen i: ii ratio for the screening atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer.   methods : the study population consisted of 132 dyspeptic patients ...

aim : this study used the olga system to characterize the histology pattern of gastritis in dyspeptic outpatients with a mean age of 45 years from regions with different gastric cancer risks.   background : several classification systems have been purposed for understanding the status of the gastric mucosa.  currently, the sydney system is the most widely employed. nevertheless, the applicabili...

OBJECTIVE To study children with significant upper abdominal pain of unidentifiable etiology and evaluate: (a) the relationship of pain to inflammatory esophago-gastro-duodenal lesions and Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, and (b) the response to specific therapy. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Pediatric section of a tertiary referral gastroenterology center. SUBJECTS Thirty three co...