Gastroscopic biopsy is a means of examination that has some diagnostic value for gastric diseases.
During gastroscopy, if abnormalities are found on the surface of the gastric mucosa, a portion of the tissue from the lesion is taken through the gastroscope for pathological specimen examination. The benignity and malignancy of the disease, the degree of inflammation and H. pylori infection can be clarified.
There is also some guidance for the treatment of the disease. For example, if a gastroscopy biopsy reveals a peptic ulcer, it needs to be treated with regular oral medication according to a course of treatment. If there is an accompanying H. pylori infection, oral anti-H. pylori drugs are needed for radical treatment. If a gastroscopic biopsy diagnoses early gastric cancer, surgical treatment is required.
But not everyone is a candidate for gastroscopy biopsy. If a patient has a perforated gastrointestinal tract, gastroscopy should not be performed in the acute phase. There are also some cardiovascular diseases in the acute phase that are unstable, and gastroscopy biopsies should not be done to prevent complications during the gastroscopy process.
Usually, antiplatelet aggregation medications are discontinued before a gastroscopy biopsy is performed.