Abstract
To determine the presence of vascular periodic acid-Schiff's reagent (PAS) positive deposits in the gastric and duodenal mucosa of diabetic patients and controls. Forty-six poorly controlled diabetic patients with digestive symptoms, aged 23 to 63 years (32 type I patients on insulin therapy with a mean diabetes duration of 14.2 +/- 3.1 years (mean +/- SE) and 13 type II patients with a mean diabetes duration of 7.2 +/- 2.3 years) were included. Of these, 17 had mainly gastropathic symptoms while 13 had diarrhea, and the remaining 16 patients had nonspecific symptoms. Forty control individuals of similar age and gender were included. Biopsy specimens were taken from areas of grossly normal gastric and duodenal mucosa. Gastric mucosa samples were pathological in 38 of 46 diabetic patients (18 cases of chronic active H. pylori antral gastritis, 13 cases of chronic active H. pylori pangastritis and 7 cases of nonspecific chronic gastritis). Duodenal mucosa samples were pathological in 32/46 diabetic patients. In the control group, 21 of 40 gastric samples (5 cases of chronic active H. pylori antral gastritis, 3 cases of chronic active H. pylori pangastritis and 13 cases of H. pylori-negative chronic gastritis) and 12/40 duodenal samples were pathological. Both helicobacteriosis and gastric and duodenal mucosa pathologies were significantly (p < 0.01) more common in diabetic patients than in controls. No significant associations were found between histological findings of gastric mucosa and of duodenal mucosa in diabetics and the control group. PAS-positive material in the vascular wall of gastric (16/46 vs. 2/40 in controls) and duodenal mucosa specimens (25/46 vs. 5/40 in controls) was significantly more common among diabetics (p = 0.001 for gastric and p < 0.001 for duodenal mucosa). No significant association was found between the presence of gastropathy or diarrhea compared to the presence of neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy or the type of diabetes. Endoscopic specimens from the gastroduodenum of diabetic patients revealed a large quantity of PAS positive vascular deposits, probably reflecting the condition of the mucosal vessels in our patients.
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