PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS AMONG THE PATIENTS PRESENTING IN THE OUTDOOR DEPARTMENT
| Main Authors: | DR. M HASNAT UL HASAN, DR. ZAINAB MAHMOOD, DR. TAIBA FATIMA |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4443428 |
Daftar Isi:
- Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. Symptoms include right upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and occasionally fever. Often gallbladder attacks (biliary colic) precede acute cholecystitis. The pain lasts longer in cholecystitis than in a typical gallbladder attack. This cross-sectional study was conducted among the patients presenting in the outdoor department of different hospitals. Name, age, gender, symptoms and history of pain right hypochondrium were noted on a predefined proforma. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS Ver. 23.0. A total of 100 patients presenting in the emergency department were included in this study i.e., 50 males (50%) and 50 females (50%). The mean age of the patients was 45.54±2.43 years. Out of these one hundred patients, seventeen patients had history of pain right hypochondrium and chronic cholecystitis was diagnosed in only five patients.