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Gastritis

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Alcoholic gastritis

Alcoholic gastritis (ICD-10 K29.2, ICD-11 DA42.80) is gastric mucosal inflammation from excessive alcohol use, presenting as acute erosive or hemorrhagic injury or chronic gastritis, often overlapping with H. pylori infection.

Autoimmune gastritis

Autoimmune gastritis (AIG, type A gastritis): chronic autoimmune destruction of gastric parietal cells in the corpus, causing achlorhydria, intrinsic factor antibodies, vitamin B12 deficiency, pernicious anemia, and raised gastric cancer risk.

Chemical gastritis

Chemical gastritis, also called reactive gastritis, reactive gastropathy, or type C gastritis, is stomach lining injury from chemical irritants such as NSAIDs, alcohol, and bile, with minimal inflammation; it affects about 15 percent of people in the United States.

Drug-induced gastritis

Drug-induced gastritis (ICD-11 DA42.83, medicament-induced gastritis) is gastric mucosal injury from drugs, chiefly NSAIDs and aspirin, via COX inhibition and topical toxicity; prevented and treated with PPIs.

Helicobacter pylori induced gastritis

Helicobacter pylori induced gastritis (ICD-11 DA42.1) is stomach lining inflammation from H. pylori infection, progressing from acute to chronic and atrophic gastritis, a gastric cancer risk factor; discovered by Marshall and Warren in 1982, treated by eradication therapy.

Lymphocytic gastritis

Lymphocytic gastritis is a rare chronic gastritis in which T lymphocytes build up in the stomach lining, most often linked to celiac disease or Helicobacter pylori infection.

Portal hypertensive gastropathy

Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG), congestive gastropathy, ICD-11 DA43.3: gastric mucosal changes of portal hypertension with a mosaic snakeskin endoscopic pattern in fundus and body; treated with beta-blockers, TIPS, or transplant.

Radiation gastritis

Radiation gastritis is inflammation of the stomach lining caused by ionizing radiation, usually during radiotherapy for stomach, esophageal, or pancreatic tumors, ranging from mild nausea to severe ulcers and bleeding.