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chronic gastritis

Chronic gastritis is an inflammatory condition of the gastric mucosa that may include structural alterations of the glandular compartment.

Types

- non-atrophic gastritis

  • antral-predominant non-atrophic gastritis
  • non-atrophic pangastritis

- chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG)

  • antrum-restricted atrophic gastritis
  • corpus-restricted atrophic gastritis
  • multifocal atrophic gastritis
  • atrophic pangastritis

- chronic active gastritis

- granulomatous gastritis
- collagenous gastritis
- lymphocytic gastritis
- gastric graft-versus-host disease

Etiology

- infection-associated gastritis

  • Helicobacter-associated gastritis

- dysimmune gastritis

- drug-induced gastritis

  • NSAID-induced gastritis

- toxic-induced

  • alcoholic gastritis

Videos

- Endoscopy of severe gastritis

References

- Rugge M, Genta RM. Staging and grading of chronic gastritis. Hum Pathol. 2005 Mar;36(3):228-33. PMID: 15791566

- Dixon MF, Genta RM, Yardley JH, Correa P. Classification and grading of gastritis. The updated Sydney System. International Workshop on the Histopathology of Gastritis, Houston 1994. Am J Surg Pathol. 1996 Oct;20(10):1161-81. PMID: 8827022

- Genta RM. Recognizing atrophy: another step toward a classification of gastritis. Am J Surg Pathol. 1996;20 Suppl 1:S23-30. PMID: 8694146

- Appelman HD. Gastritis: terminology, etiology, and clinicopathological correlations: another biased view. Hum Pathol. 1994 Oct;25(10):1006-19. PMID: 7927305