The detergent components of the refluxate have a traumatic effect on the gastric epithelium, which ultimately leads to an inflammatory process, most often in the antral part of the stomach.
Diseases of the digestive system are one of the most common and numerous groups of pathologies that humanity suffers from. Most of the gastrointestinal tract pathologies are inflammatory in nature.
Hyperplastic gastritis is a morphological type of chronic gastric disease in which pathological changes in the gastric mucosa are caused by increased proliferative activity of its cells.
In gastroenterology, erosive bulbitis is distinguished - inflammation of the proximal part of the duodenum - the bulb that adjoins the sphincter of the pyloric part of the stomach.
All inflammatory processes of the stomach can be divided into gastritis and gastropathy. The term "gastritis" corresponds to inflammation in which the mucous membrane of the stomach is affected.
Subatrophic gastritis is a disease in which individual sections of the gastric mucosa and glands that produce hydrochloric acid and pepsin atrophy. The latter is an enzyme involved in one of the stages of breaking down food proteins into amino acids.
Many of our readers know what gastritis is. This very common pathology is nothing more than an inflammatory disease that affects the gastric mucosa and, if unfavorable, ends in the formation of an ulcer.
It is believed that hyperacid antral gastritis is more often detected in young and middle age, and antral gastritis with low acidity is more common among people over 60 years of age.
Superficial bulbitis is the mildest form of the inflammatory process. It is considered the initial or preceding stage of other pathologies affecting the duodenum and stomach.
