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HURTADO SOLARES, Carlos A. et al. LINFOHIPERPLASIA GASTRICA: DIAGNOSTICO ENDOSCOPICO E HISTOPATOLOGICO Y SU COMPORTAMIENTO POST ERRADICACION DEL HELICOBACTER PYLORI. Ciencia y Medicina [online]. 2003, n.4, pp. 40-44. ISSN 1111-1111.

This report is prospective, longitudinal, analytical study carried out in the Bolivian-Japanese Gastroenterological Institute in the city of Cochabamba. Our study universe are patients with lymphohyperplasic gastritis endoscopic diagnosis tested with histopathology and submitted to the therapeutic schema and later endoscopic control plus a biopsy. All the patients who presented a typical image with stones, where lymphoid formation are identified as follicles with Helicobacter Pylori, are submitted to the therapeutic schema with Omeprazol, Claritomicine and Amoxiciline. Out of 837 high endoscopies carried out between 05/01/01 and 10/31/01, 39 patients with lymphohyperplasic gastritis diagnosis were studied. In 31 (81.6%) of them the diagnosis was histologically corroborated . The control endoscopy was performed in only fifteen of this 31 patients. According to the results, the incidente of this pathology is 4,6%. It is more frequent in the women (60%) and 40% in men. The endoscopy is corroborated by histology in the 81.6% of the cases. Abdominal pain is referred by 93,4% of the patients. The diagnostic impression given by the doctor corresponds to a dyspeptic syndrome on 33,4% and 26% to a ulcer peptic disease, which demonstrates that in 73,4% of the cases, symptomatology and diagnosis are referred as a dyspeptic ulcerous type of problem. The eradication rate reached 53.4%, but the symptomatology in all patients improved considerably. As conclusions, it is to mention that the endoscopic pattern is highly sensitive to secure the lymphohyperplasic gastritis diagnosis .

Palavras-chave : Gastric Lymphohyperplasya Helicobacter Pylori.