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Yasuhiro Wada1, Masaaki Kodama1,2, Kazuhiro Mizukami1
1Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, Japan.
Abstract:
This study was conducted to reveal the reversibility of subtype of intestinal metaplasia (IM) and Paneth cells after H. pylori eradication (HPE). Among 75 patients, we retrospectively examined the proportions of patients with complete type of IM (CIM), incomplete type of IM (IIM) and Paneth cells in their biopsy specimens obtained from the greater curvature of the antrum (A2) and the greater curvature of the middle corpus (B2) before and during a follow-up period of 10 years after HPE. Immunohistochemistry was used to determine IM type. Compared to before HPE, the proportion of patients with CIM did not decrease significantly during the 10-year follow-up after HPE both in A2 (32% vs. 21.3%, P = 0.13) and in B2 (6.7% vs. 2.7%, P = 0.60). IIM rates in A2 was significantly lower during this time (26.7% vs. 10.7%, P = 0.04), whereas no patients showed IIM in B2 before HPE. The proportion of patients with Paneth cells decreased significantly in A2 after 3, 8, and 9 years of HPE and in B2 after 4, 6 and 9 years of HPE (P < 0.05 for all). Thus, IIM and Paneth cells regressed during a period of 10 years after HPE.
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