Esophageal intestinal metaplasia in gastro esophageal reflux disease(erosive type) among an egyptian sector)

This study was carried out on 300 patients presented to outpatientclinic complaining of symptoms suggesting of GERD. Sixty patients wereselected and classified to the following three groups:Group I : Included 45 patients has GERD without metaplasia.Group II : Included 6 patients has GERD with columnar metaplasia.Group III : Included 9 patients has GERD with intestinal metaplasia.The selected patients were subjected to upper GIT endoscopy withbiopsy for histopathological examination.The results ofthis work can be summarized as follow:1- The percentage of intestinal metaplasia (Barrett’ s esophagus) was15% among selected GERD patients.2- Identical number and percentage distribution of smoking and sexamong studied GERD patients. However, the percentage of maleswere double those of females.3- GERD patients with metaplasia (columnar and intestinal) are elderthan those without metaplasia.4- There was positive significant correlation between grades ofGERD and age of patients and duration of symptoms.