[A rare cause of peripheral edema: exudative lymphocytic gastritis induced hypoprotidemia].
Diagnosis of edema secondary to hypoprotidemia but without nutritional, renal, hepatic or cardiac cause, must consider exudative digestive disease, of which the lymphocytic gastritis, as the authors report here a new observation diagnosed in a 73 year-old woman. Gastroscopy reveals varioliform gastritis and biopsy demonstrates diffuse infiltration of the gastric epithelium by lymphocytes, making of it a real histopathologic entity among the gastropathies. Etiology and pathogeny remain still unknown but proton pump gastric inhibitors are an effective treatment.
Montagnac
Richard
R
Service de néphrologie-hémodialyse, centre hospitalier de Troyes, 10003 Troyes cedex, France. richard.montagnac@ch-troyes.fr
Blaison
Dominique
D
Ciupea
Adrian
A
Für
Alain
A
Pradel
Jean
J
Schillinger
Francis
F
D000368:Aged; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004386:Duodenum / Q000473:pathology; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005665:Furosemide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005758:Gastritis, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005773:Gastroscopy; D006801:Humans; D034141:Hypoalbuminemia / Q000209:etiology; D007019:Hypoproteinemia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology
D004232:Diuretics; D005665:Furosemide