Gonzalo Latorre, José Ignacio Vargas, Shailja C Shah, Danisa Ivanovic-Zuvic, Pablo Achurra, Martín Fritzsche, Jai-Sen Leung, Bernardita Ramos, Elisa Jensen, Javier Uribe, Isabella Montero, Vicente Gandara, Camila Robles, Miguel Bustamante, Felipe Silva, Eitan Dukes, Oscar Corsi, Francisca Martínez, Victoria Binder, Roberto Candia, Robinson González, Alberto Espino, Carlos Agüero, Allan Sharp, Javiera Torres, Juan Carlos Roa, Margarita Pizarro, Alejandro H Corvalan, Charles S Rabkin, M Constanza Camargo, Arnoldo Riquelme
BACKGROUND: The updated Sydney system biopsy protocol (USSBP) standardizes the sampling of gastric biopsies for the detection of preneoplastic conditions (e.g., gastric intestinal metaplasia [GIM]), but the real-world diagnostic yield is not well-described. AIM: To determine whether regular application of USSBP is associated with higher detection of chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG), GIM and autoimmune gastritis (AIG). METHODS: We performed a real-world retrospective study at an academic urban tertiary hospital in Chile...
August 19, 2023: Gastroenterología y Hepatología