Bordin D, Livzan M. History of chronic gastritis: How our perceptions have changed. World J Gastroenterol 2024; 30(13): 1851-1858 [PMID: 38659477 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i13.1851]
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Maria Livzan, DSc, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Omsk State Medical University, No. 12, Lenina Street, Omsk 644099, Russia. mlivzan@yandex.ru
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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World J Gastroenterol. Apr 7, 2024; 30(13): 1851-1858 Published online Apr 7, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i13.1851
History of chronic gastritis: How our perceptions have changed
Dmitry Bordin, Maria Livzan
Dmitry Bordin, Department of Pancreatic, Biliary and Upper GI Tract Diseases, A.S. Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center, Moscow 111123, Russia
Dmitry Bordin, Department of Propaedeutic of Internal Diseases and Gastroenterology, Russian University of Medicine, Moscow 127006, Russia
Dmitry Bordin, Department of Outpatient Therapy and Family Medicine, Tver State Medical University, Tver 170100, Russia
Maria Livzan, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Omsk State Medical University, Omsk 644099, Russia
Author contributions: Bordin D and Livzan M were designed the outline of the paper, performed writing of the paper; Livzan M prepared the tables; Bordin D coordinated the writing of the paper.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest associated with any of the senior author or other coauthors contributed their efforts in this manuscript.
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Corresponding author: Maria Livzan, DSc, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Omsk State Medical University, No. 12, Lenina Street, Omsk 644099, Russia. mlivzan@yandex.ru
Received: December 30, 2023 Peer-review started: December 30, 2023 First decision: January 16, 2024 Revised: January 19, 2024 Accepted: March 18, 2024 Article in press: March 18, 2024 Published online: April 7, 2024 Processing time: 94 Days and 14.4 Hours
Abstract
Currently, the diagnostic strategy for chronic gastritis (CG) is aimed not just at fixing the presence of gastric mucosal inflammation, but also at gastric cancer (GC) risk stratification in a particular patient. Modern classification approach with the definition of the stage of gastritis determines the need, activities and frequency of dynamic monitoring of a patient. However, this attitude to the patient suffering from CG was far from always. The present publication is a literature review describing the key milestones in the history of CG research, from the description of the first observations of inflammation of the gastric mucosa, assessment of gastritis as a predominantly functional disease, to the advent of endoscopy of the upper digestive tract and diagnostic gastric biopsy, assessment of the role of Helicobacter pylori infection in progression of inflammatory changes to atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia and GC.
Core Tip: For more than a century, physicians have noted the relationship of chronic gastritis (CG) with the development of gastric cancer, which prompted great interest in the study and systematization of CG in order to better understand the prognosis and develop approaches for cancer prevention. The accumulated knowledge about the etiology, pathogenesis and morphology of gastritis has made it possible to coordinate the general ideas about gastritis in the classifications used by practicing physicians today.
