The correlation between Traditional Chinese Medical syndromes of autoimmune gastritis and its clinical features:a retrospective study
Objective:To investigate the correlation between Traditional Chinese Medical syndromes of auto-immune gastritis and its clinical features.Methods:A single center retrospective cross-sectional study was comple-ted.A total of 69 autoimmune gastritis patients were enrolled in the study.The correlation between Traditional Chinese Medical Syndromes and demographic characteristics,endoscopic features and pathological characteristics of biopsy were analyzed.Results:The atrophy of gastric antrum in group of spleen stomach weakness syndrome was significantly higher than that of the other three groups(P<0.05),while the eosinophil infiltration of gastric body was significantly lower than that of the other three groups(P<0.05).Hp infection history,hyperplastic polyp and neutrophil infiltration in gastric body in group of spleen stomach damp heat syndrome were significantly higher than those in the other three groups(P<0.05).The proportion of white mucus and lymphocyte infiltration in gastric fundus glandin group of liver stomach disharmony syndrome were significantly lower than that in the other three groups(P<0.05).The proportion of diabetes in group of Yin deficiency and blood stasis syndrome was significantly higher than that of the other three groups(P<0.05).Conclusion:Different syndrome types of patients with autoimmune gastritis have their own clinical characteristics:spleen stomach weakness syndrome is correlated with gastric antrum atrophy and correlated with eosinophil infiltration in the gastric body;spleen stom-ach damp heat syndrome is correlated with Hp infection history,hyperplastic polyp and neutrophil infiltration in gastric body;liver stomach disharmony syndrome is correlated with white mucus and lymphocyte infiltration in gastric fundus gland;Yin deficiency and blood stasis syndrome is correlated with the history of diabetes.
autoimmune gastritisTraditional Chinese Medical syndromesgastroscopepathology feature