Endoscopic assessment of dyspepsia

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted to identify the spectrum of diseases causing dyspepsia and to find out relative prevalence of individual diseases in our society. A number of 510 patients between ages of 10-70 years with dyspepsia were selected after fulfilling a definite criterion for the study. The results indicated that 261 [51.17%] had no endoscopic abnormality suggesting that a large majority of patients suffer from non-ulcer dyspepsia. The prevalence of peptic ulcer was 10%. About 20% had esophagitis and 13% suffered from gastritis/duodenitis. It was concluded that majority of patients with dyspepsia had no peptic ulceration, though they may present with ulcer like symptoms