title: [Water melon stomach or antrum gastritis--differential diagnostic aspects].
abstract: The gastric-antral-vascular-ectasia (GAVE), the "Watermelon-stomach", is a capillary ectasia of the antrum mucosa. It appears as longitudinal intensive redness of the mucosa. This endoscopic picture is caused by fibromuscular obliteration of the lamina propria and vascular ectasia with fibrinthromby. The pathogenesis of the disease is unknown. Clinical manifestation is chronic blood-loss with consecutive anaemia. The "Watermelon-stomach" is often not recognized and mistaken as "refractory antrumgastritis". Laser-coagulation is a not-operative therapy of GAVE.
authors: Mittelrheinklinik Bad Salzig, Fachklinik für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten, LVA Rheinland-Pfalz.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Schaube
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Herz
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Stolte
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D013684:Telangiectasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Wassermelonen-Magen oder "Antrumgastritis"--Differentialdiagnostische Abgrenzung.