RE.GA.IN.: the Real-world Gastritis Initiative–updating the updates

At the end of the last century, a far-sighted ‘working party’ held in Sydney, Australia addressed the clinicopathological issues related to gastric inflammatory diseases. A few years later, an international conference held in Houston, Texas, USA critically updated the seminal Sydney classification. In line with these initiatives, Kyoto Global Consensus Report, flanked by the Maastricht-Florence conferences, added new clinical evidence to the gastritis clinicopathological puzzle. The most relevant topics related to the gastric inflammatory diseases have been addressed by the Real-world Gastritis Initiative (RE.GA.IN.), from disease definitions to the clinical diagnosis and prognosis. This paper reports the…

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  AstraZeneca
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  Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer
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  Les Laboratories Pierre Fabre