Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 9
Letter
Sarcina ventriculi in gastric biopsies of two patients with an underlying neoplasia

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8667/2022

Ane Ugarte Bilbao, Iciar de la Fuente Molinero, María Teresa Bravo Rodríguez, María Paz Arreba González, Laura Buendía Carcedo, Nagore Arbide del Río,

Abstract
We present the cases of two women aged 75 and 71 years under study for dyspepsia and weight loss. The initial gastroscopy of both patients showed a stomach full of food content, with thickened gastric folds that were hard on contact with the forceps. Gastric biopsies showed the presence of Sarcina ventriculi on active chronic gastritis, so antibiotic treatment was started (ciprofloxacin and metronidazole), without significant clinical improvement. In both patients, gastroscopy was repeated without showing macroscopic changes compared to the initial gastroscopy, which led to the suspicion of an underlying lesion.
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Ugarte Bilbao A, de la Fuente Molinero I, Bravo Rodríguez M, Arreba González M, Buendía Carcedo L, Arbide del Río N, et all. Sarcina ventriculi in gastric biopsies of two patients with an underlying neoplasia. 8667/2022


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Publication history

Received: 30/01/2022

Accepted: 25/02/2022

Online First: 22/03/2022

Published: 07/09/2022

Article Online First time: 51 days

Article editing time: 220 days


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