RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cell proliferation in the post-surgical stomach, dietary salt, and the effect of H pylori eradication.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 665
OP 669
DO 10.1136/jcp.52.9.665
VO 52
IS 9
A1 P Willis
A1 D A Lynch
A1 R Prescott
A1 S Lamonby
YR 1999
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/52/9/665.abstract
AB AIMS: To study the epithelial kinetics of the post-surgical stomach with reference to dietary salt intake and H pylori. METHODS: Endoscopic biopsies of the antrum/anastomosis and corpus were taken for histology and MIB-1 immunostaining. The labelling index (LI%) was determined in the three zones of the gastric glands (zone 1 = surface + gastric pit; zone 2 = isthmus; zone 3 = gland base) in patients with vagotomy and pyloroplasty (n = 12), gastroenterostomy + vagotomy (n = 4), partial gastrectomy (n = 3), and Billroth I operation (n = 3). Dietary salt was determined by urinary sodium/creatinine ratio. Twelve patients were H pylori positive (10 vagotomy and pyloroplasty; 2 partial gastrectomy) and had a repeat biopsy three months after antihelicobacter treatment (10 were H pylori negative after treatment). RESULTS: There was no correlation between salt intake and antrum/anastomosis (r = -0.34; p = 0.2) or corpus (r = -0.16; p = 0.2) labelling indices. Gastric mucosal proliferation is increased in the antrum/ anastomosis compared to the corpus in H pylori positive (p = 0.014) but not H pylori negative subjects (p = 0.084). This may reflect the different types of post-surgical stomach in each group. Gastric mucosal proliferation is reduced in antrum/anastomosis (p = 0.002) and corpus (p = 0.016) following H pylori eradication. CONCLUSIONS: Dietary salt does not influence gastric mucosal proliferation in the post-surgical stomach but H pylori may have a role in gastric stump carcinogenesis.