title: Chronic Gastritis in Morbidly Obese Patients with Sleeve Gastrectomy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Obesity is a condition that has significant impact on public health. Recent exciting studies have linked chronic gastritis and H. pylori infection to obesity. Chronic gastritis has shown increased prevalence in obesity, more particularly H. pylori-related gastritis. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of chronic gastritis in morbidly obese patients who were subjected to sleeve gastrectomy, with focus on H. pylori-related gastritis. The aim was to demonstrate any influence on chronic gastritis of the surgical procedure or its post-operative course.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred six morbidly obese patients were subjected to vertical sleeve gastrectomy in King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH) from March 2014 to April 2015. After full pre-operative preparation, sleeve gastrectomy was carried out, followed by histological examination of the specimen to view the chronic gastritis and H. pylori-related cases. All epidemiological data of the patients, including age, gender, body mass index (BMI), as well as mean operative time, length of hospital stay, and post-operative complications were documented and analyzed by IBM-SPSS version 22.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Female patients presented the higher prevalence, i.e., 66% among the group of patients with sleeve resection, while 33% had chronic gastritis and 8.5% had H. pylori-related gastritis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study highlights the high prevalence of chronic gastritis in morbidly obese patients with reference to the high incidence of H. pylori-related gastritis among them, however no relationship was found between this infection and the post-operative outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ahmed Mohammad
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Makki
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Saleh Mohammad
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Aldaqal
authors.affiliation: Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Universty, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Shahad Hamadan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Alorabi
authors.affiliation: House Officer, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Universty, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Ismail Ahmed
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Nemri
authors.affiliation: House Officer, Ibn Sina Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Maha Mohammad
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Alajami
keywords: H. pylori; chronic gastritis; morbid obesity; sleeve gastrectomy