Schaube J, Herz R, Stolte M
Mittelrheinklinik Bad Salzig, Fachklinik für Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten, LVA Rheinland-Pfalz.
Z Gastroenterol. 1994 Sep;32(9):493-6.
The gastric-antral-vascular-ectasia (GAVE), the "Watermelon-stomach", is a capillary ectasia of the antrum mucosa. It appears as longitudinal intensive redness of the mucosa. This endoscopic picture is caused by fibromuscular obliteration of the lamina propria and vascular ectasia with fibrinthromby. The pathogenesis of the disease is unknown. Clinical manifestation is chronic blood-loss with consecutive anaemia. The "Watermelon-stomach" is often not recognized and mistaken as "refractory antrumgastritis". Laser-coagulation is a not-operative therapy of GAVE.
胃窦血管扩张症（GAVE），即“西瓜胃”，是胃窦黏膜的毛细血管扩张。它表现为黏膜纵向密集发红。这种内镜下表现是由固有层纤维肌性闭塞和伴有纤维血栓形成的血管扩张引起的。该病的发病机制尚不清楚。临床表现为慢性失血及随之而来的贫血。“西瓜胃”常未被识别，而被误诊为“难治性胃窦炎”。激光凝固术是治疗胃窦血管扩张症的一种非手术疗法。
