CLINICAL EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH CHOLELITHIASIS
| Main Author: | Dr. Hamid Raza, Dr. Khurram Abbas, Dr. Arshad Hussain Abro, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dr. Hamid Nawaz Ali Memon and Dr. Amir Khan |
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| Format: | Article |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2018
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1310582 |
Daftar Isi:
- OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical profile of patients with cholelithiasis PATIENTS AND METHODS: The cross sectional study of six months was conducted at tertiary care hospital, all the patients of ≥30 year of age, either gender diagnosed as cholelithiasis recruited and enrolled in the study and explore for their demographical and clinical profile at tertiary care hospital. The frequency (percentage) and mean ± SD was calculated for qualitative and quantitative variables in patients with diabetic foot ulcer. RESULTS: Total fifty patients were admitted studied with the history of Cholelithiasis. The mean ± SD for age (yrs) and duration of disease (wks) was 51.76±4.86 and 6.82±2.85 with female gender predominance (80%). The clinical features observed were fever 36%, nausea / vomiting 44%, jaundice 20%, abdominal pain 90% and dyspepsia 24% while the ultrasound findings were single stone 10%, multiple stone 30%, bile duct stones 10%, thickening of gallbladder 36%, dialated bile duct 14% whereas regarding the intervention laparoscopic cholecystectomy 70% and open cholecystectomy 30%. Regarding the type of stone cholesterol stone 14%, mixed 46% and pigmented 10% and majority of the patients belonged to rural population 75%. CONCLUSION: The gallstones incidence commonly identified during fifth and sixth decades with female predominance, the common symptoms presented were pain and tenderness at right hypochondrium while the sonography is the best screening investigation KEYWORDS: Gallstones, cholelithiasis and cholecystectomy.