Research Article
Conifer Green Needle Complex in Patients with Precancerous Gastric Lesions: An Observational Pilot Study
Table 1
Characteristics of patients before treatment.
| | Parameters | Group of patients | | Treatment with CGNC | Control |
| | Number of patients () | 26 | 24 | | Women () | 19 | 18 | | Men () | 7 | 6 | | Average age, years, mean ± standard deviation of the mean | 59.9 ± 2.4 | 60.7 ± 2.2 | | Symptoms of dyspepsia, (% of patients) | 26 (100%) | 24 (100%) | | Endoscopic signs of atrophic gastritis, (% of patients) | 26 (100%) | 24 (100%) | | Antrum: chronic atrophic gastritis, (% of patients) | 23 (88.5%) | 21 (87.5%) | | Antrum and corpus chronic atrophic gastritis, (% of patients) | 3 (11.5%) | 3 (12.5%) | | Gastric adenomatous polyps, (% of patients) | 7 (26.9%) | 7 (29.2%) | | H. pylori infection, (% of patients) | 14 (53.8%) | 13 (54.2%) | | Increased gastric juice pH, (% of patients) | 24 (92.3%) | 22 (91.7%) | | Decreased pepsinogen-pepsin activity in gastric juice, (% of patients) | 23 (88.5%) | 22 (91.7%) | | Decreased pepsinogen-pepsin activity in gastric mucosa, (% of patients) | 20 (76.9%) | 20 (83.3%) | | Atrophy of gastric mucosa, (% of patients) | | All degrees | 26 (100%) | 24 (100%) | | Mild | 17 (65.4%) | 15 (62.5%) | | Moderate | 8 (30.8%) | 7 (29.2%) | | Severe | 1 (3.8%) | 2 (8.3%) | | Intestinal metaplasia at histological and cytological examinations, (% of patients) | | All grades | 16 (61.5%) | 17 (70.8%) | | Degree 1 | 7 (43.7%) | 7 (41.2%) | | Degree 2 | 6 (37.5%) | 8 (47.1%) | | Degree 3 | 3 (18.7%) | 2 (11.8%) | | Dysplasia | 3 (11.5%) | 3 (12.5%) | | Lymphoplasmacytic infiltration at histological and cytological examination, (% of patients) | | All degrees | 26 (100%) | 24 (100%) | | Degree 1 | 12 (46.2%) | 12 (50%) | | Degree 2 | 6 (23.1%) | 3 (12.5%) | | Degree 3 | 8 (30.8%) | 9 (37.5%) |
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