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Thirty-three patients presenting with dyspepsia were examined with the Olympus Fiber-gastroscope. An endoscopic diagnosis was made in each case and multiple gastric biopsies were obtained for histological and ultrastructural assessment. The endoscopic, histological and ultrastructural findings were compared with each other. Of 33 patients endoscoped, 29 were found to have endoscopic evidence of various types of gastritis and all of these latter had histological evidence of some form of gastritis. Histological confirmation of specific types of endoscopically diagnosed gastritis, however, was only found in 3/9 cases of chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG), 10/14 cases of chronic (superficial) gastritis (CG) and in none of six cases of acute gastritis (AG), indicating that endoscopic diagnosis of specific types of gastritis is relatively inaccurate. Endoscopic diagnosis should thus be restricted to presence or absence of gastritis, leaving the specific typing to histological assessment of the gastric biopsies. Multiple gastric biopsies should be obtained even though the gastric mucosa appears normal endoscopically, since histological evidence of gastritis was found in three out of four cases with endoscopically normal gastric mucosa. Comparison of histological diagnosis with electron microscopy showed that generally there is good correlation between the severity of the histological changes and the ultrastructural grade of damage as defined in this study. It would appear that E.M. examination of the gastric biopsies will not significantly increase the diagnostic accuracy of light microscopy, although it has elucidated the various cellular changes which characterize chronic gastritis. The rough surface contours, the large gastric pit and the increasing number of surface microvilli, seen by scanning E.M., aid the grading of the disease process. Some of these changes are reflected in observations made by transmission E.M. where in addition the basal intercellular edema of the mucosal layer and the appearance of electron-dense mucosal lining cells are observed. The latter, which are the counterpart of "intestinal metaplasia", possess mucus granules which resemble those of gastric mucosal lining cells or intestinal goblet cells, or both.
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PMID:Endoscopic, histological and ultrastructural correlations in chronic gastritis. 44 29

Acute Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with dyspeptic symptoms but chronic infection has not clearly been shown to cause symptoms. To define further the role of H. pylori infection and gastritis in dyspepsia, we interviewed all patients about to undergo upper endoscopy, recorded the primary indication for endoscopy, noted the endoscopic findings, and obtained antral biopsies. Among non-ulcer patients there was a strong correlation of acute gastritis with H. pylori. Gastritis and H. pylori increased with age, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use correlated with normal histology. Neither H. pylori concentration nor gastritis grade correlated with gender, use of alcohol and tobacco, indication for endoscopy, or symptoms (epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, bloating, belching, heartburn, halitosis, and flatulence).
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PMID:Symptoms, gastritis, and Helicobacter pylori in patients referred for endoscopy. 851 92

In reviewing the literature we discussed the problem, whether there is a correspondence between the morphological picture of acute gastritis and the clinical expression including a complex of symptoms "acute gastritis", which should better be called acute dyspepsia. There is no good accord.--The histological main features of acute gastritis are infiltration of mucosa by neutrophils and the leucodiapedesis. this acute gastritis is very seldom the cause of clinical symptoms of acute dyspepsia. Alcohol, spices or drugs may produce a "toxic damage" of the mucosa, but they do not cause an acute gastritis, just as little as some viral diseases or staphylococcal toxins.
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PMID:[On acute gastritis (author's transl)]. 701 84

Numerous studies implicated Helicobacter pylori as one causative agent producing gastritis and dyspepsia. Recent reports focus on another bacterium, Gastrospirillum hominis, as a possible pathogen producing gastritis. We report a 30-year-old researcher who became acutely ill with epigastric pain indicative of esophagitis or peptic ulcer disease. Gastritis and a gastric ulcer were observed endoscopically. Histological examination of the gastric mucosa revealed an acute gastritis and large spiral-shaped organisms. The spiral forms were present in large quantities in the gastric mucosa of experimental animals (cats) handled by the patient in his research. Electron microscopy confirmed that the organisms from the cat and patient were morphologically identical. The patient was successfully treated with bismuth subsalicylate. His symptoms resolved and the organisms were cleared from his stomach. This study provides evidence that another bacterium, a Gastrospirillum, may cause gastritis in man and may be transmitted from animal to man.
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PMID:Acute gastritis associated with spiral organisms from cats. 814 39

A total of 10,000 patients underwent upper gastrointestinal endosopy examination between August 1979 and October 1994 at Tikur Anbessa Hospital, Addis Ababa. The major indications were dyspepsia (59.4%), upper gastrointestinal bleeding (18%) and liver disease (10.8%). The other indications include dysphagia (2.2%), gastric outlet obstruction (2.1%), postoperative dyspeptic symptoms (1.9%), weight loss and/or anemia (1.4%), epigastric mass (0.6%) and odynophagia 0.2%. The mean age of the patients and their sex ratio was 36 years and 2:1, respectively. Twenty eight percent of the patients had normal findings. The commonest abnormal findings include duodenal ulcer (41%), esophageal varices (9%), acute gastritis (6%), duodenitis (3.4%), and reflux esophagitis (2.3%). Benign gastric ulcer was rare. The ratio of duodenal ulcer to gastric ulcer was 19.1%. Duodenal ulcer (45.6%), esophageal varices (15.6) and acute gastritis (5.7%) were found to be the commonest causes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The endoscopy or histology diagnosis of cancer in both the esophagus and stomach was 2.8% and 1.3%, respectively. The agreement between endoscopy and histology in the diagnosis of esophageal and gastric cancer was 80%. There was no major complication related to endoscopy or premeditation. Endoscopy is a fairly accurate and safe procedure and therefore should be available and applied widely for the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal diseases in Ethiopia.
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PMID:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: a review of 10,000 cases. 1689 26