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Achlorhydria

Última revisão: 5 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 19 Aug 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • age >60 years
  • female sex
  • autoimmune disorders
  • weakness
  • lethargy
  • decreased exercise tolerance
  • skin and conjunctival pallor
  • paresthesias and difficulty ambulating
  • nutritional deficiency (cobalamin, iron, calcium, vitamin D)
  • enteric infection
  • memory loss, irritability, depression, and dementia
  • ataxia, shuffling gait, decreased position sense, decreased vibration sense
  • pale, smooth, and glossy tongue
  • koilonychia
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Fatores de risco

  • autoimmune disorders
  • age >60 years
  • Helicobacter pylori infection
  • prior gastric surgery
  • hypergastrinemia
  • gastric carcinoid
Detalhes completos

Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • hemoglobin
  • biopsy of corpus and/or fundus of stomach
  • intragastric pH
Detalhes completos

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • serum gastrin
  • gastric acid secretory test (gastric analysis)
  • parietal cell antibodies
  • intrinsic factor antibodies
  • diagnostic tests for Helicobacter pylori infection
  • serum pepsinogen I and II (PGI and PGII)
Detalhes completos

Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

all patients

Colaboradores

Autores

C. Prakash Gyawali, MD, FRCP

Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology

WashU Medicine

St. Louis

MO

Declarações

CPG declares that he has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr C. Prakash Gyawali would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Joseph Spataro, Dr Hamzeh Saraireh, Dr Mitchell L. Schubert, and Dr Juan Diego Baltodano, previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

JS declares that he has no competing interests. HS is the author of one study referenced in this topic. MLS is an author of several studies referenced in this topic. JDB declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

George Triadafilopoulos, MD

Professor of Medicine

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition

Division of Internal Medicine

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston

TX

Declarações

GT declares that he has no competing interests.

Peter J. Kahrilas, MD

Gilbert H. Marquardt Professor of Medicine

Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

Evanston

IL

Declarações

PJK declares that he has no competing interests.

Heinz F. Hammer, MD

Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine

Medical University of Graz

Attending Gastroenterologist

University Hospitals Graz

Austria

Declarações

HFH has been reimbursed by AstraZeneca, Nycomed, and Janssen, the manufacturers of proton-pump inhibitors, for attending several conferences and speaking, and has been paid by AstraZeneca for running educational programs.

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Disclosures

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Referências

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Principais artigos

Gupta S, Li D, El Serag HB, et al. AGA clinical practice guidelines on management of gastric intestinal metaplasia. Gastroenterology. 2020 Feb;158(3):693-702.Texto completo  Resumo

Malfertheiner P, Megraud F, Rokkas T, et al. Management of Helicobacter pylori infection: the Maastricht VI/Florence consensus report. Gut. 2022 Aug 8.Texto completo  Resumo

Chey WD, Howden CW, Moss SF, et al. ACG clinical guideline: treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. Am J Gastroenterol. 2024 Sep 1;119(9):1730-53.Texto completo  Resumo

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