Helicobacter pylori y gastritis crónica: relación entre infección y actividad inflamatoria en población de alto riesgo de cáncer gástrico / Helicobacter pylori and chronic gastritis: relationship between infection and inflammatory activity in a high risk population for gastric cancer
Rev. méd. Chile
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128(3): 259-65, mar. 2000. ilus, tab
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RESUMO
Background:
Helicobacter pylori has been involved in gastric epithelial cell damage and gastric gland loss or atrophy.Aims:
to evaluate role of Helicobacter pylori infection in acute and chronic changes of chronic gastritis in a high gastric cancer-risk population. Material andmethods:
200 patients with chronic gastritis were selected from pathological files of Temuco Hospital. A complete histopathological protocol was fulfilled considering the presence of infection by Helicobacter pylori-like-organism (HLO), acute and chronic inflammatory infiltrate, epithelial cell damage and epithelial cell regeneration.Results:
82 percent of patients showed infection by HLO. Moreover, this infection reached a frequency of 92.7 percent in gastric ulcer patients and 94.4 percent in duodenal ulcer patients. A statistically significant positive correlation was found between HLO infection and polymorphonuclear infiltrate, Iymphocytic infiltrate, mucus depletion and epithelial regenerative activity. There was not a statistical correlation between HLO infection and atrophy. Finally, 90 percent of patients with multifocal atrophic gastritis and 100 percent of patients with diffuse antral gastritis had HLO infection.Conclusions:
HLO gastric infection frequently caused acute inflammatory changes in gastric mucosa with chronic gastritis. Sometimes these changes were severe, with marked polymorphonuclear migration throughout epithelium and severe epithelial cell damage. Recovery of these changes could be considered as a goal in Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy decision
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Main subject:
Helicobacter pylori
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Gastritis
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Practice guideline
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. méd. Chile
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2000
Type:
Article
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