Prevalence of Endoscopic Findings in Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding At Aliabad Teaching Hospital
Keywords:
UPGIB, Endoscopic finding, prevalence.Abstract
Background: Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is defined as hemorrhage from the mouth to the ligament of Treitz.,
In this study, we found 28 cases among a total of 700 patients who were admitted from March 20, 2024, to June 20, 2024, in Aliabad Teaching Hospital.
The gastrointestinal bleeding may involve many distinctive situations. The reason for this variety is that bleeding can arise from multiple lesions and numerous internal situations in the upper gastrointestinal tract.
Patients with significant upper GI bleeding often have hemodynamic compromise and are rapidly transported to the emergency department for resuscitation, stabilization, and hospitalization. This study aims to determine the prevalence of endoscopic findings in upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Methods: this study is in a descriptive cross-sectional design , which was carried out with the prescription of 28 patients in which 13 patients done endoscopy who were admitted to the inpatients service of Aliabad teaching hospital from 3 , 20 , 2024 till 6 , 20 , 2024 .
The data collected from the patient's files were inserted into the SPSS program, and then all the calculations were performed in this software.
Results: This result shows the prevalence of endoscopinc finding in UGIB patients 7, 692 % of them were below 30 years of age, followed by 15, 384% of the patients were between 31 - 40 years .and 7, 692% of the patients were in the ages among 41 -50 years and between the ages of 51-60 years there were 30,769 % of the participants in this study and 30, 769% of the participants were above 60 years of ages and in the ages 71 – 80 participants 7, 692%.
In this study 53, 846%% of the patients were males 46, 153% of the patients were females. In this study 53 , 846% were from province and 46 , 135% were from capital of Afghanistan .
Conclusion: this research shows that the high prevalence of endoscopic finding in UGIB were among men and in elderly people. However, the high prevalence was erosive gastritis due to NSAIDS, which requires more attention to control and treat UGIB and to prevent complications.
