Chronic Hepatitis. Epidemiologics, clinics and biochemicals facts | Medicina UPB

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Arango Arroyave, J. J., Gómez Correa, E., Lopera Vellejo, A. F., Raigosa Garcia, O. A., Restrepo Sánchez, O., Salazar Gómez, D. M., Ordoñez Molina, J., Correa, G., & Restrepo, J. C. (2004). Chronic Hepatitis. Epidemiologics, clinics and biochemicals facts. Medicina UPB, 23(2), 153-160. https://revistas.upb.edu.co/index.php/medicina/article/view/2609

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Jorge Juan Arango Arroyave

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Esteba Gómez Correa

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Andres Felipe Lopera Vellejo

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Oscar Andrés Raigosa Garcia

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Oswaldo Restrepo Sánchez

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Diana Marcela Salazar Gómez

Pontifical Bolivarian University

Jaime Ordoñez Molina

University of Antioquia

Gonzalo Correa

University of Antioquia

Juan Carlos Restrepo

University of Antioquia

Abstract

Objective: Charaeterize the epidemiology, clinic, and biochemistry of the cases of chronic hepatitis diagnosed by histology in the Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe (HPTU) from Medellin during the last ten years, using the history charts of these patients.

Methods: Transversal retrospective case report, in which all the variables where measured once. Central tendeney and dispersion tendeney measures where employed.

Results: 21 patients with diagnosis of chronic hepatitis by histology were analyzed.The variables age, sex, etiology and diagnostic tests where distributed by frequency. Factors associated with the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis where described as also where their frequency, their complications, their symptoms and their motive for consultation.

Conclusions: The study showed a high prevalence of autoirnmune hepatitis and idiopathic hepatitis in the smdied population; however, analyses to the diagnostic tests showed that sorne patients have been group under those diagnostics without previously discarding important differential diagnosis.

Keywords:

Chronic Hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis Autoinmmune, Antibodies Antinuclear

Author Biographies

Jorge Juan Arango Arroyave, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB).

Esteba Gómez Correa, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB).

Andres Felipe Lopera Vellejo, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB).

Oscar Andrés Raigosa Garcia, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB).

Oswaldo Restrepo Sánchez, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB)

Diana Marcela Salazar Gómez, Pontifical Bolivarian University

Medical student at the Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (UPB).

Jaime Ordoñez Molina, University of Antioquia

Doctor and surgeon from the University of Antioquia, Epidemiologist from the Center for Health Studies (CES); Doctor of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the General Hospital of Medellín; Professor of the UPB Research Department.

Gonzalo Correa, University of Antioquia

Internist Physician and Professor of the Gastrohepatology Section of the University of Antioquia.

Juan Carlos Restrepo, University of Antioquia

Surgeon from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Internist from the Universidad de Antioquia, PhD in medical biopathology and MSc in organ and tissue transplantation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Professor of the Gastrohepatology Section of the University of Antioquia.

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