Helicobacter pylori Gastritis
Left: 39 year-old woman with unexplained anemia and occult gastrointestinal bleeding. Endoscopy revealed erosive antral gastritis; biopsies contained Helicobacter.
Right: 44 year-old man with abdominal pain and occult gastrointestinal tract bleeding. Endoscopy revealed diffuse gastritis involving and distal gastric body and antrum. Clotest was positive for Helicobacter.
Left: 72 year-old woman with hematemesis (vomiting blood). In addition to this inflammatory process involving the gastric body and antrum, she also had a small gastric ulcer. Biopsies and Clotest were both positive for Helicobacter pylori.
Right: 55 year-old man with dyspepsia. Endoscopy revealed multiple erosions and small ulcers; biopsies were positive for H. pylori.
Left: 52 year old woman undergoing upper endoscopy for abdominal pain and acid reflux symptoms. Endoscopy revealed mucosal nodularity in the gastric antrum. Biopsies revealed active gastritis with Helicobacter pylori organisms present.
Center: 35 year old woman with abdominal pain, nausea, dyspepsia and weight loss. Endoscopic findings included prepyloric antral gastritis extending into the pyloric channel, biopsies of which were positive for H. pylori.
Right: 63 year old man with abdominal pain, nausea and acid reflux symptoms. Endoscopy revealed erythema and granularity of the mucosa with punctate erosions in the prepyloric antrum. Biopsies revealed Helicobacter pylori gastritis.
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