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Collagenous Gastritis

September 25, 2020 7:02 am

“Collagenous gastritis (CG) is a rare gastrointestinal disorder with fewer than 300 cases reported in the English-language literature.” If you have to manage one of these rare cases, here is a useful reference:

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology: August 2020 – Volume 11 – Issue 8 – p e00219 doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000219. Full text link: Collagenous Gastritis in Children: Incidence, Disease Course, and Associations With Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Markers

Key points:

The prevalence of CG was 2.1/100,000 in children aged younger than 18 years
The endoscopic and histologic findings remained pathologic in all the examined patients during a median follow-up of 4.4 years
The serum levels of calprotectin and amyloid A were increased in 10/15 (67%) and 5/15 (33%) of the patients, respectively