[Endoscopic and histologic findings of gastric mucosa and Helicobacter pylori prevalence in patients suffering from chronic liver disease].

In this research we evaluated the prevalence of Hp in the gastric mucosa in patients suffering for chronic liver disease, either chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis. Sixty-three patients 27 with chronic hepatitis and 36 with liver cirrhosis, were examined by EGDS; of them we evaluated: endoscopic findings of stomach and duodenum, histology of gastric mucosa (antrum and corpus-fundus), presence of Hp in the histologic samples. We compared the positivity for Hp with the following parameters: presence of esophageal varices, macroscopic aspect of the gastric and duodenal mucosa, presence of hystological findings of gastritis, gastritis's activity, grading of the hepatic damage. In the our research we didn't point out greater prevalence of the Hp in the gastric mucosa with respect to hepatic damage, esophageal varices or macroscopic signs of gastric pathology. The Hp is significantly associated with histologic evidence of gastritis and also with the grade of gastritis's activity. The data of the present work don't suggest any correlation within the pathologic changes of the gastric mucosa caused from the liver cirrhosis and the presence or the growth of Hp.