Discover 8 warning signs of atrophic gastritis that millions ignore. Learn how this dangerous stomach condition develops and ...

Discover how atrophic gastritis silently damages stomach tissue while increasing cancer risk, often going undiagnosed for years.

Atrophic gastritis is a chronic condition that causes inflammation of the stomach lining over a long time. Either a bacterial infection or an autoimmune condition is responsible. Autoimmune ...

Is the endoscopic finding of atrophic gastritis, type B, Hp-positive, considered a true premalignant condition leading to the development of gastric cancer? M. Brian Fennerty, MD, explores the issue.

Key Facts. Gastritis refers to the inflammation of the stomach lining. It has various types, including acute, chronic, atrophic, and non-atrophic, each with different causes and potential severity.

Atrophic gastritis and intestinal metaplasia are two important precursory lesions of intestinal type gastric cancer. A research group in China investigated the progression of atrophic gastritis ...

The AGA published the Clinical Practice Update expert review to provide guidance on the diagnosis and management of atrophic gastritis, in particular due to chronic Helicobacter pylori infection ...

Koike T, Masamune A. Helicobacter pylori Infection in Reflux Esophagitis and Atrophic Gastritis: Clinical Implications. MedGenMed 3(2), 2001 [formerly published in Medscape Gastroenterology ...

In the patients with chronic atrophic gastritis without pernicious anemia, gastric biopsy, assays for serum vitamin B 12 activity, tests of absorption of labeled vitamin B 12 and, ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Atrophic gastritis (AG), also called metaplastic atrophic gastritis (MAG), is a chronic (long-lasting) inflammation of the stomach lining, which leads to the ...

Autoimmune atrophic gastritis can also affect vitamin B12 absorption, leading to anemia. In addition, having H. pylori gastritis may slightly increase the risk of developing stomach cancer.