The liver diseases program of the Hospital Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará: infrastructure and clinical epidemiology in 10 years of attendance

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Amaral, Ivanete do Socorro Abraçado¹  Brito, Maria Sílvia Barbosa de¹  Macedo, Zilvana Pinheiro de¹  Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Belém¹  Miranda, Esther Castello Branco Mello¹  Ministério da Saúde, Belém¹  Moia, Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira¹  Demachki, Sâmia¹  Soares, Manoel do Carmo Pereira¹  Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém¹  Araújo, Marialva Tereza Ferreira de¹  Conde, Simone Regina Souza da Silva¹ 

关键词: Chronic liver disease;    Chronic hepatitis;    Viral hepatitis;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822004000700009

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

The Liver Diseases Program of the Hospital Santa Casa de Misericordia do Pará was create because of the need to attend patients with liver diseases of the Amazônia area, taking as priority to attend with quality, diagnosis of aetiologies, clinical following and specific treatment. This study aim to describe dates related to epidemiology, aetiologics agents and histopathologic analisys. One thousand sixthy nine patients were evaluated through medical, laboratory, endoscopic, ultrasound or computadorized tomography and histopathologic examination. Nine hundred thirty five (63,6%) patients within 1469 patients were diagnose as chronic liver disease. The average age was 50 year, 666 (71,2%) were male, and the most patients lived in Belem, state of Pará. The aetiologic agents most prevail were alcoholism (53,7%) and viral hepatitis (39,1%). Hepatic biopsy were done in 403 (43,1%) within the 935 patients and the results showed chronic hepatitis (34%) and chirrosis (34%). In sumary the chronic liver disease in the amazon region is more prevail in male than female, the alcoholism is the principal aetiologie, and the most of these cases were diagnose in the severe phase.

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