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→Reactive gastropathy: note about gastritis
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====Epidemiology==== | ====Epidemiology==== | ||
*Associated with | *Associated with:<ref>ALS. 5 February 2009.</ref> | ||
**Excess acid. | **Excess acid. | ||
**EtOH. | **EtOH. | ||
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***Iron (brown pigment on histology). | ***Iron (brown pigment on histology). | ||
***NSAIDs. | ***NSAIDs. | ||
====Relation to gastritis==== | |||
*May mimic a (true) gastritis symptomatically and visually in an endoscopic examination. | |||
*"Chemical gastritis" is misnomer. Etymologically, the ''-itis'' in ''gastritis'', implies an inflammatory process. Chemical gastropathy is not (predominantly) an inflammatory process. | |||
**This type of confusion is not uncommon. [[Steatohepatitis]] is another example of this; it is not a process with significant inflammation yet, confusingly, carries the ''-itis'' ending. | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||