Clinical-histopathological characterizationof chronic gastritis
Journal Title: Más Vita - Year 2021, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Gastritis is a disease with high morbidity worldwide, the main risk factor is Helicobacter pylori infection. Objective:To describe the clinical, histopathological and endoscopic characteristics in a population with chronic gastritis. Material and methods:An observational, descriptive, retrospective study was carried out, including 49 patients who attended the outpatient consultation of the gastroenterology area, aged 18 to 65 years, who underwent a histopathological and endoscopic study in the Gastroenterology Service at the Quevedo General Hospital, Los Ríos-Ecuador, during September 2017 -September 2018. Results:A predominance of the male gender was observed (65%); In people over 40 years of age (55%), epigastralgia and the sensation of heartburn, 39% and 35% spectively, were the most frequent symptoms, the positivity for Helicobacter pylori, reached 86%, and the non-erosive lesion 73 %, there was a greater presence of the non-atrophic form (84%) over the atrophic one. Conclusions:Chronic gastritis predominated in the age group over 40 years of age and male, the most prevalent risk factors being Helicobacter pylori infection and those associatedwith the consumption of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, poor diet, alcohol and tobacco. symptoms such as epigastric pain and the sensation of heartburn were the most frequent. The endoscopic finding was greater for non-erosive forms, and according to histopathology, moderate antral non-atrophic gastritis was the most frequent
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Jazmín Beatriz Anzules Guerra, Eduardo Josué Milian Hernández, Liset Betancourt Castellanos
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