[Association of Helicobacter pylori infection with nodular antritis and follicular gastritis].
BACKGROUND
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is known to be the must common cause of chronic gastritis having some endoscopic and pathologic characteristies as determinated by the Sydney System for Gastritis Classification. The aim of our case report was to point out the relationship between an endoscopic finding of nodular antritis and the presence of H. pylori infection and active chronic gastritis.


METHODS
Our patient underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for dyspeptic complaints and was diagnosed as having nodular antritis, but also underwent urease test and hystopathologic examination of antral mucosa, to determine the presence and density of H. pylori infection and the presence and severity of gastritis. After a course of anti H. pylori treatment, dyspepsia improved and new biopsy specimens obtained two months and six months afterwards revealed no pathological findings.


CONCLUSIONS
The case report supported the association of H. pylori infection of lymphoid follicles with nodular gastric mucosis.
Tomasević
Ratko
R
KBC Zemun, Odeljenje gastroenterologije, Zemun. tomasnik@eunet.yu
Golubović
Gradimir
G
Kiurski
Miroslav
M
Stanković
Dragana
D
Doder
Radoje
R
Pavlović
Aleksandar
A
D000328:Adult; D005756:Gastritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005773:Gastroscopy; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D016480:Helicobacter pylori; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000473:pathology; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology