First, coca chewers should be more prone to infection with H. pylori due to their low stomach acidity. Second, continuous suppression of gastric acid secretion should facilitate the rapid spread ...

The authors conclude that gastric juice analysis is both more effective and cheaper than conventional techniques for the diagnosis of AGOM and H. pylori infection.

Chronic atrophic gastritis can result not only in vitamin B12 deficiency in spite of a normal serum concentration but it can also result in a raised gastrin level, which in rare cases can rise to ...

Pangastritis was defined as spreading of the atrophic region throughout the entire stomach without visible gastric folds at the greater curvature of the corpus. The study protocol was approved by ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2013;28(2):279-284. We demonstrated that gastric mucosal patterns were associated with histological severity of atrophy and metaplasia. Of abnormal patterns, the degree of ...