Proper definition, recognition and classification of chronic gastritis are fundamental for its successful therapy. Gastric inflammation based on clinical/endoscopic classification is not a pathomorphologically homogenous diagnostic group. From histopathological point of view, it seems most likely that chronic gastritis is characterized by morphological indices of chronic inflammatory changes in...

Given the ubiquitous use of oral iron therapy, their side effects are often encountered and well recognized in clinical practice. However, iron pill gastritis remains an often under-reported and elusive diagnosis. An astute clinician should be aware of this condition in order to promptly discontinue oral iron and institute timely treatment. Here in, we present a case of a 46-year-old woman who ...

Three children presented with acute protein losing enteropathy and were found to have acute gastritis associated with Campylobacter pylori infection. Recovery from protein losing enteropathy was accompanied by resolution of the gastritis and the disappearance of C pylori from the gastric mucosa. Their clinical course suggested that the C pylori had caused the gastritis and the protein losing en...

Abomasal abnormalities impose economic constraints on sheep production, most of which are subclinical and cannot be easily detected by routine clinical examination. In this survey, morphopathological lesions of 100 abomasa of sheep slaughtered in Fars Province, southern Iran were studied from spring to autumn of 2011. Grossly, raised pale to whitish nodular areas to irregularly thickened mucosa...

To investigate whether DNA directly induces gastritis and/or peptic ulcer, we injected synthetic DNA including CpG motif (CpG-DNA) to mouse stomach. BALB/c mice were injected with either saline, acetic acid (AA), CpG-DNA, or Control-DNA. Mice were sacrificed, and sections of the stomachs were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The lesions were histopathologically scored from 0 to 4 based on th...

Background: G.lamblia is a common worldwide parasitic infection which colonizes the upper part of small intestine causing giardiasis. Aim of the Work: This study aims to detect gastric giardiasis in children receiving antacid drugs and undergoing upper endoscopy at El Mounira Children Hospital, Cairo University. In addition to study the effect of H.pylori on colonization of gastric mucosa by G....

A 54-year-old Hispanic male presented to the clinic with chronic dyspepsia and uncontrolled reflux symptoms not responding to acid-suppression therapy with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). His past history was remarkable for sleeve gastrectomy one year previously. PPI therapy was stopped two weeks prior to endoscopy to promote the yield of a Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) test. Esophagogastroduo...

Gastritis has a broad pathologic spectrum and anatomic distribution, as well as an evolving etiology. The Sydney pathologic classification of gastritis, which appeared in 1990 and was revised in 1994, emphasized the importance of combining etiologic, topographic, and morphologic criteria for establishing clinically useful diagnoses. Using this revised Sydney pathologic classification as a guide...

Russell body gastritis is a rare form of chronic gastritis. It is characterized by the invasion of lamina propria by plasma cells that included eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusion. In the literature, most of the cases are associated with Helicobacter pylori. Russell body gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection are generally seen together incidentally. We report here two cases of Russell body...

The concordance between endoscopic and histological gastritis was determined in 52 patients referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The study was conducted in Northeastern Peninsular Malaysia, an area with a low background prevalence of H. pylori infection. Endoscopic and histological gastritis were assessed in accordance with the Sydney System. The results showed poor concordance betwee...