Enteritis and gastritis in young asymptomatic Pakistani men.

Abstract

In a study of peroral gastric and small-intestinal mucosal biopsies from 50 asymptomatic young men in a West Pakistan institution, a mild-to-moderately-severe chronic enteritis was seen in all specimens of small intestinal mucosa. Of 41 subjects studied, 29 had chronic superficial gastritis, and of 29 subjects, all had antral gastritis. No specific cause for these lesions was demonstrated. These studies seem to exclude hookworm infection as the cause of the lesions.