Table 4.
Endoscopic gastric mucosal changes in the examined patients and detection rates of H. pylori.
| Gastric mucosa status at endoscopy | PAPS | SLE+APS | SLE | All patients | ||||
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| n = 20 | n = 26 | n = 39 | n = 85 | |||||
| H. pylori (+) | H. pylori (-) | H. pylori (+) | H. pylori (-) | H. pylori (+) | H. pylori (-) | H. pylori (+) | H. pylori (-) | |
| n = 14 (70.0%) | n = 6 (30.0%) | n = 21 (80.8%) | n = 5 (19.2%) | n = 31 (79.5%) | n = 8 (20.5%) | n = 66 (77.6%) | n = 19 (22.4%) | |
| All patients with gastric mucosal changes, n (%) | 12 (85.7) | 6 (100) | 21 (100) | 5 (100) | 28 (90.3) | 5 (62.5) | 61 (92.4) | 16 (84.2) |
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| Antral gastritis, n (%) | 11 (78.6) | 6 (100) | 20 (95.2) | 5 (100) | 23 (74.2) | 5 (62.5) | 54 (81.8) | 16 (84.2) |
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| Pangastritis, n (%) | 1 (7.1) | 0 | 1 (4.8) | 0 | 5 (16.6) | 0 | 7 (10.6) | 0 |
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| Gastric mucosal erosion, n (%) | 5 (35.7) | 0 | 7 (33.3) | 3 (60.0) | 5 (16.6) | 1 (12.5) | 17 (25.6) | 4 (21,2) |
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| Gastric mucosal hemorrhage, n (%) | 1 (7.1) | 1 (16.7) | 2 (9.5) | 1 (20.0) | 2 (6.4) | 0 | 5 (7.6) | 2 (10.5) |
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| Intact gastric mucosa, n (%) | 2 (14.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (10.0) | 3 (33.3) | 5 (7.8) | 3 (14.3) |
Note: H. pylori was detected by PCR.