Behavior of the pathologies diagnosed by upper digestive endoscopy at the Integral Diagnostic Center Yagua. 2007

Abstract

We made an observational, descriptive, retrospective study with the objective of knowing the behavior of the pathologies diagnosed by upper digestive endoscopy in a group of patients attended at the Integral Diagnostic Center Yagua, municipality of Guacara, Carabobo State, in the period from July to December 2007. Our universe were 1 542 patients, 464 of which were our simple randomized sample prevailing the 45 to 59 years-old patients, most of them women. The media age in these cases was 46.2 years. Gastritis was the pathology most frequently diagnosed by endoscopy, present in more than a third of the patients, mainly of the female sex. The maintained stress affected more than a half of the studied patients, and smoking and alcoholism were other exogenous factors associated to the high occurrence. The endoscopic study was indicated mainly under the diagnostic impression of abdominal pain, ulcerous syndrome and esophagitis, having as main endoscopic findings in these cases, gastritis, peptic ulcer and hiatal hernia respectively.