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Acloridria

Last reviewed: 20 Aug 2025
Last updated: 19 Aug 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Other diagnostic factors

  • idade >60 anos
  • sexo feminino
  • doenças autoimunes
  • fraqueza
  • letargia
  • tolerância reduzida ao exercício
  • palidez da pele e conjuntival
  • parestesias e dificuldade de ambulação
  • deficiência nutricional (cobalamina, ferro, cálcio, vitamina D)
  • infecção entérica
  • perda de memória, irritabilidade, depressão e demência
  • ataxia, marcha arrastada, senso de posição diminuído, percepção de vibração diminuída
  • língua pálida, lisa e brilhante
  • coiloníquia
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Risk factors

  • doenças autoimunes
  • idade >60 anos
  • infecção por Helicobacter pylori
  • cirurgia gástrica prévia
  • hipergastrinemia
  • carcinoide gástrico
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • hemoglobina
  • biópsia do corpo e/ou fundo do estômago
  • pH intragástrico
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Investigations to consider

  • gastrina sérica
  • teste de secreção de ácido gástrico (análise gástrica)
  • anticorpos anticélulas parietais
  • anticorpos antifator intrínseco (FI)
  • testes diagnósticos para infecção por Helicobacter pylori
  • pepsinogênio sérico I e II (PGI e PGII)
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

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Contributors

Authors

C. Prakash Gyawali, MD, FRCP

Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology

WashU Medicine

St. Louis

MO

Disclosures

CPG declares that he has no competing interests.

Acknowledgements

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.

Disclosures

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.

Peer reviewers

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

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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

Disclosures

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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References

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Key articles

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.Full text  Abstract

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

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.Full text  Abstract

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