"Alcohol facilitates the development of superficial gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis." Severe stress: Major illnesses, injuries, burns or infections can cause gastritis. Cancer treatment ...

Chronic atrophic gastritis can result not only in vitamin B12 deficiency in spite of a normal serum concentration but it can also result in a raised gastrin level, which in rare cases can rise to ...

The authors conclude that gastric juice analysis is both more effective and cheaper than conventional techniques for the diagnosis of AGOM and H. pylori infection.