LETTER

Authors’ reply

Robertino Mera¹, Elizabeth T H Fontham², Luis E Bravo³, Juan C Bravo³, Maria Blanca Piazuelo⁴, Maria Constanza Camargo⁴, Pelayo Correa⁴

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
² School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
³ Department of Pathology, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA

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Correspondence to:
Professor P Correa
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2215 Garland Avenue 1030 MRB IV, Nashville, TN 37232-0252, USA; pelayo.correa@vanderbilt.edu

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We appreciate the interest given to our article (Gut 2005;54:1536–40) by Bhuiyan and Mencias Vera¹ as well as by Gillen and McColl.² Both letters requested individual scores for atrophy and intestinal metaplasia at baseline and at 12 years of follow-up. Table 1 shows the scores.

View this table:   Table 1  Histopathology scores at baseline and at 12 years of follow-up in patients treated and free of Helicobacter pylori infection at 12 years

 

We wish to emphasise that the histopathology score (table 1, fig 1 in the original article) was based on the global diagnosis and reflects the grade of atrophy and dysplasia, and the type and extent of intestinal metaplasia. The inflammatory infiltrate was not part of this histopathology score. Therefore, the resolution of the inflammatory infiltrate does not explain the fall in the average histopathology score. Acute and chronic inflammatory scores were classified separately in the antrum and the corpus . . . [Full text of this article]

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