Abstract:Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of Blue Laser Imaging (BLI) in atrophic lesions of chronic gastritis.Methods 420 patients were randomly examined by BLI with microamplification typing (about 40 ~ 60 times) from December 2017 to June 2019. The sensitivity, specificity, false positive and false negative were calculated to evaluate the diagnostic value of BLI in chronic atrophic gastritis.Results 231 patients with chronic atrophic gastritis and 189 patients with non atrophic gastritis were found. 376 biopsied lesions were identified to be the atrophic lesions while 446 lesions were identified to be the non atrophic lesions in the total 822 biopsied lesions. There were four types of chronic gastritis examined by BLI with microamplification including chrysanthemum villous type (106), nodular villous type (203), fish scale type (20) and regular type (493) according to the previous experience of the team. Among the 106 chrysanthemum villous lesions, 88 lesions were the atrophic lesions and 18 lesions were the non atrophic lesions. The positive predictive value of atrophic lesions was 83.0% (88/106). Among the 203 villous nodular lesions, 170 lesions were the atrophic lesions and 33 lesions were the non atrophic lesions. The positive predictive value of atrophic lesions was 83.7% (170/203). Among the 20 fish scale lesions, 18 lesions were the atrophic lesions and 2 lesions were the non atrophic lesions. The positive predictive value of atrophic lesions was 90.0% (18/20). Among the 493 regular lesions, there were 100 atrophic lesions and 393 non atrophic lesions. The positive predictive value of non atrophic lesions was 79.7% (393/493). The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of the combination of chrysanthemum villous type, nodular villous type and fish scale type in the diagnosis of atrophic lesions was 73.4%, 88.1%, 83.9%, 79.7% and 81.4%, respectively. The sensitivity of moderate and severe atrophic lesions can be increased to 85.7%.Conclusion The classification of chronic gastritis in BLI with microamplification is helpful to improve the endoscopic identification and diagnosis of atrophic lesions in chronic gastritis, especially for the moderate and severe atrophic lesions.