Principales factores de riesgo presentes en pacientes con cirrosis hepática en la provincia de Ciego de Ávila
Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: An observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross sectional study was carried out. An observational, descriptive, retrospective, cross sectional study was carried out with the aim to determine the main risk factors in patients with liver cirrhosis in Ciego de Avila, from January, 2002 to December, 2012. 119 patients with this illness were diagnosed, prevailing fundamentally in the group of 60 years andmore with 69 cases (57.9 %) and 65 (54.6 %) of the masculine sex.The risk factors that frequently were present in patients with liver cirrhosis were the chronic hepatitis C virus in 44 patients (36.9 %) and the alcoholism in 17 (14.2 %). In 23 cases (19.3 %) it was not possible to require the possible etiologic factor of this disease, therefore they qualified as unknown or cryptogenetic cause. Most of the patients were in the compensated phase of the illness, being the asthenia, and the loss of weight the initiate symptoms. The ascites was the complication more often observed (31.9 %) and 41.1% of patients presented a moderate liver failure (Child-Pugh class B) at the diagnosis moment
Source: MediCiego
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Hepatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2223206933