Description The purpose of this Clinical Practice Update Expert Review is to provide
clinicians with guidance on the diagnosis and management of atrophic gastritis, a common …

Objective To present results of the Kyoto Global Consensus Meeting, which was convened
to develop global consensus on (1) classification of chronic gastritis and duodenitis,(2) …

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) resides in the stomach, colonizes gastric epithelium, and
causes several digestive system diseases. Several diagnostic methods utilizing invasive or …

Atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and epithelial dysplasia of the stomach are common
and are associated with an increased risk for gastric cancer. In the absence of guidelines …

BACKGROUND: The OLGA (operative link on gastritis assessment) staging system is based
on severity of atrophic gastritis (AG). AG remains a difficult histopathologic diagnosis with …

The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and United European
Gastroenterology (UEG) have identified quality of endoscopy as a major priority and we …

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) affects nearly half of the world's population and, thus, is one of
the most frequent and persistent bacterial infections worldwide. H. pylori is associated with …

Significant progress and new insights have been gained in the 4 years since the first
Maastricht Consensus Report, necessitating an update of the original guidelines. To achieve …

Background: The available classifications of gastritis are inconsistently used, possibly
because none provides immediate prognostic/therapeutic information to clinicians. As …

The inflammatory spectrum of gastric diseases includes different clinico-pathological
entities, the etiology of which was recently established in the international Kyoto …