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. 2019 Oct 10;7(19):3211-3215.
doi: 10.3889/oamjms.2019.725. eCollection 2019 Oct 15.

Are Histopathological Changes of H. pylori Infection in Young Dyspeptic Patients Necessitate Endoscopy?

Wafa'a Redha Mohammed Al-Sabbagh  1 , Alaa Qasim Yahya  2 , Rasha Abdelraouf Alsafi  1
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Are Histopathological Changes of H. pylori Infection in Young Dyspeptic Patients Necessitate Endoscopy?

Wafa'a Redha Mohammed Al-Sabbagh et al. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. .

Abstract

Background: Helicobacter pylori is an important gastrointestinal infective bacteria with many serious complications including gastric erosions and ulceration, duodenal ulcer, gastric carcinoma and MALT gastric lymphoma. The gastric biopsy is commonly performed in H. pylori-positive dyspeptic individuals, and many previous researchers studied the histopathological features of infected gastric biopsies however little previous studies focused on the histopathological findings in young population in comparison to the older one.

Aim: To make a focus on the histopathological effects of H. pylori infection in young patients compared with the older one and predicts the need for endoscopy in this population, also to estimates the prevalence of infection in Iraqi patients.

Material and methods: the sample for this study is 180 patients in total, they attended Marjan medical city in Iraq for dyspepsia of more than 3 months and prepared for OGD. Patients asked for their permission to do immunological tests for H. pylori. Both serology for H. pylori antibodies and stool for antigen tests are used, and the case is included in the study only if both tests were positive, after OGD, the gastric biopsies are processed and examined histopathologically.

Results: Normal gastric biopsy is the most common histopathological finding in young (< 25 years) patients (75%) while chronic atrophic gastritis is the most common one in patients > 25 years age (57%). The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in dyspeptic patients was 73.3%, the correlation between infection and sex was insignificant (p-value 0.06), and no significant correlation between infection and age (p-value 0.07) was concluded.

Conclusion: H. pylori-related histopathological changes of gastric mucosa in young (< 25 years) are commonly mild and does not necessitate endoscopy at this age unless there are alarming signs.

Keywords: Endoscopy; Helicobacter pylori; Histopathology; Young; dyspepsia.

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