Characterization of the patients with chronic hepatitis C in the Service of Gastroenterology. Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital José R. López Tabrane. 2008-2010

Abstract

The hepatitis C is considered a serious health problem being the first cause of the chronic hepatic disease, liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma. We carried out a descriptive, prospective, longitudinal study, with the objective of characterizing, from the clinical, epidemiologic and anatomopathological point of view, the 38 patients diagnosed with virus C chronic hepatitis at the Service of Gastroenterology of the Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital José R. López Tabrane, in the period from January 2008 to January 2010. The results were expressed in tables and graphics and processed according to the correspondent statistic methods. The most significant epidemiologic antecedents were blood donations and previous surgical interventions. The most frequent presentation form was the asymptomatic ones. At the moment of the diagnosis, most of the patients were in the stage of chronic hepatitis; among those diagnosed with cirrhosis there was a predominance of those included in the stage B, according to the Child-Pugh classification. The virological and biochemical answer at the end of the Heberviron treatment was low, as it also was six months after finishing the treatment.