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Usefulness of Serum Pepsinogens in Helicobacter pylori Chronic Gastritis: Relationship With Inflammation, Activity, and Density of the Bacterium

Digestive Diseases and Sciences volume 51, pages 1791–1795 (2006)Cite this article

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We sought to study the relationship between serum pepsinogens and different histopathologic features of Helicobacter pylori-related chronic gastritis. One hundred forty-nine consecutive dyspeptic patients underwent endoscopy with biopsies; serum pepsinogens I and II were measured by immunoassay. Serum levels of pepsinogens (sPG) were significantly correlated with H. pylori density both of the corpus (sPGI: r = 0.32, P < .001; sPGII: r = 0.56, P < .001) and antrum (sPGI: r = 0.41, P < .001; sPGII: r = 0.43, P < .001) as well as with chronic inflammation (sPGI: r = 0.26, P < .001; sPGII: r = 0.49, P < .001) and activity (sPGI: r = 0.38, P < .001; sPGII: r = 0.50, P < .001) in the antrum. Only sPGII was correlated with chronic inflammation (r = 0.44, P < .001) and activity (r = 0.40, P < .001) in the corpus. SPGI was inversely correlated with atrophy (r = –0.33, P < .001) and intestinal metaplasia (r = –0.37, P < .001) in the corpus. sPGII levels could be considered as markers of gastric inflammation all over in the stomach. sPGI levels are inversely related to atrophic body gastritis.

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  1. Chair of Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Francesco Di Mario, Lucas Giovanni Cavallaro, Ali Mahamat Moussa, Roberta Merli, Andrea Maini, Simone Bertolini, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Giovanni Aragona & Mario Plebani

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  3. Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, Italy

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  5. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy

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Di Mario, F., Cavallaro, L.G., Moussa, A.M. et al. Usefulness of Serum Pepsinogens in Helicobacter pylori Chronic Gastritis: Relationship With Inflammation, Activity, and Density of the Bacterium. Dig Dis Sci 51, 1791–1795 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-006-9206-1

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Keywords

  • Activity
  • Atrophy
  • Chronic inflammation
  • Helicobacter pylori density
  • Serum pepsinogens