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To assess the histological prevalence of Campylobacter-like organisms in gastric mucosa and examine their association with mucosal injury across various upper gastrointestinal diseases.

January 30, 2009Digestion

High Incidence of Campylobacter-Like Organisms in Endoscopic Biopsies from Patients with Gastritis, with or without Peptic Ulcer

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RFRoberto FioccaUniversity of Genoa LVLaura VillaniIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze FTF. TurpiniAOL (United States)

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Cross-sectional biopsy study demonstrates high rates of Campylobacter-like organisms in gastritis and peptic ulcers, suggesting bacterial infection directly drives mucosal inflammation.

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To assess the histological prevalence of Campylobacter-like organisms in gastric mucosa and examine their association with mucosal injury across various upper gastrointestinal diseases.
Histological and ultrastructural evaluation of multiple endoscopic gastric mucosal biopsies obtained from N=310 patients with symptoms suggestive of upper digestive disease.
Classification of biopsies by underlying pathology, including gastritis subtype, peptic ulcer status, presence of intraepithelial granulocytes, and intestinal metaplasia.
Campylobacter-like organisms were detected in 74.5% (230/310) of patients overall, infecting 83.9% (230/274) of patients with gastritis compared to 0.0% (0/36) of gastritis-free controls.
Infection rates were 90.0% in gastric ulcers, 88.2% in duodenal or pyloric ulcers, 82.2% in healed ulcers, and 78.6% in nonulcerous dyspepsia, versus 46.9% in gastric stumps and 47.6% in asymptomatic controls.
Organisms were present in 84.4% of superficial, interstitial, or preatrophic gastritis cases compared to 55.5% of severe atrophic gastritis cases, associating with distinct epithelial vacuolization and micropapillary hyperplasia but never appearing in complete intestinal metaplasia.

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Fiocca et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9bc0628658a0829a55130a https://doi.org/10.1159/000199597

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Cross-sectional biopsy study demonstrates high rates of Campylobacter-like organisms in gastritis and peptic ulcers, suggesting bacterial infection directly drives mucosal inflammation.

High Incidence of Campylobacter-Like Organisms in Endoscopic Biopsies from Patients with Gastritis, with or without Peptic Ulcer

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High Incidence of Campylobacter-Like Organisms in Endoscopic Biopsies from Patients with Gastritis, with or without Peptic Ulcer

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