Scope found erythematous mucosa in the antrum: What does it mean?

@mariahann
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Regarding the term used in describing the findings on your endoscopy it means that they found redness in one part of the lining of your stomach The redness implies inflammation/irritation of an area and this brings extra blood flow to that area.
Biopsy of an area like this could help diagnose gastritis- an irritation of the stomach that could cause pain and discomfort.

Hi, I just had an endoscopy. Doc found erythematous mucosa in the gastric body and antrum. Now I'm just waiting for the results for the biopsy.

can anyone help me understand my result's?

Erythematous mucosa is an inflammation in the lining of the digestive tract

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Hi @ritamorris, Unfortunately we are members like yourself and can share our experiences with different tests but we are not qualified to help interpret test results. You mentioned in a previous post you had an endoscopy and the doctor found erythematous mucosa in the gastric body and antrum, and you are now waiting for biopsy results. Have you gotten the results back? Can you discuss them with your doctor?

Yes, I have more then one issue with my gi tract and was need help understanding to my path results although I know it's benign. but I am wanting to know if it is fixable my results are

Stomach, endoscopic biopsy:
REACTIVE GASTROPATHY.
- Histologic sections reveal gastric antral and fundic (oxyntic) type
mucosa with reactive foveolar hyperplasia and minimal-to-mild chronic
inflammation. These histologic changes are consistent with
chemical-type injury such as can be seen with NSAIDs, alcohol, and bile
reflux.
- Immunoperoxid
ase stain for Helicobacter pylori is negative.
- No intestinal metaplasia is identified (confirmed by PAS/Alcian
blue stain).

@mariahann -Thanks for posting it . We are going through the exact same issue and waiting for Biopsy .

@astaingegerdm .thanks for posting the comments as I was wondering what it means too .

Hi, and thanks for your reply. I've been slightly anemic for over a year. Doctor did endoscopy, removed polyps from my stomach. Polyps were non-cancerous. Also had colonoscopy a year ago, polyps removed and were non-cancerous. Doctors still don't know why I'm anemic. Have follow up labs and doctors appointment with PCP and oncologist next month.