Category:Stomach and Abomasum - Inflammatory Pathology

Gastritis, Chronic gastritis

Chronic Hypertrophic Gastritis In The Dog

• Clinically see anorexia, weight loss, anaemia and associated hepatic disease.
• Associated with protein loss into gut.

Pathology

• Hyperplasia of mucosa.
  • Mucosa thrown up into folds.
  • Reduced numbers of parietal cells and increased numbers of goblet cells.

Chronic Atrophic Gastritis In The Dog

• Aetiology uncertain.
• Grossly: (may be difficult to appreciate)
  • Reduced mucosal thickness.
  • Loss of rugae.
• Histologically
  • Mucosal thinning.
  • Loss of gastric glands.
  • Diffuse inflammatory infiltrate of lymphocytes and plasma cells.
  • Fewer eosinophils in lamina propria.