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Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar
Background and objective Dyspepsia is a common complaint encountered in general clinical practice. The prevalence of clinically significant endoscopy findings in dyspeptic subjects of various age groups and ethnicities in Qatar is not well studied. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of endo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11166 |
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author | Badi, Ahmad Naushad, Vamanjore A Purayil, Nishan K Chandra, Prem Abuzaid, Hassan O Paramba, Firjith Lutf, Abdo Abuhmaira, Mohamed Milad Elzouki, Abdel-Naser Y |
author_facet | Badi, Ahmad Naushad, Vamanjore A Purayil, Nishan K Chandra, Prem Abuzaid, Hassan O Paramba, Firjith Lutf, Abdo Abuhmaira, Mohamed Milad Elzouki, Abdel-Naser Y |
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description | Background and objective Dyspepsia is a common complaint encountered in general clinical practice. The prevalence of clinically significant endoscopy findings in dyspeptic subjects of various age groups and ethnicities in Qatar is not well studied. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of endoscopic findings in previously uninvestigated patients with dyspepsia. Patients and methods We retrospectively studied subjects older than 18 years of age who underwent endoscopy for dyspeptic complaints from January 2011 to December 2017. Subjects who already had peptic ulcer disease (PUD), those who underwent endoscopy for reasons other than dyspepsia, and those with incomplete data were excluded. Results A total of 824 subjects were reviewed for eligibility and 733 were included for analysis. The mean ±SD age of the study subjects was 42.7 ±13.5 years, and 59.5% of the subjects were male. Epigastric pain was the predominant symptom (79.2%) followed by heartburn (26.1%). Abnormal endoscopic findings were noted in 91.8% of subjects. Gastritis (65.5%) and oesophagitis (33.1%) were the most common findings observed. The overall prevalence of gastric ulcers was 4.6%, and it was higher in subjects who were more than 60 years of age (14.1%, p=0.001). Gastric carcinoma was seen in only four (0.54%) subjects. Conclusion Gastritis was the most common endoscopic finding observed followed by oesophagitis. The most common presenting symptoms were epigastric pain and heartburn. The prevalence of gastric ulcers was significantly high in patients above 60 years of age, and the incidence of gastric carcinoma was low in the study population. |
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spelling | pubmed-76881832020-11-27 Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar Badi, Ahmad Naushad, Vamanjore A Purayil, Nishan K Chandra, Prem Abuzaid, Hassan O Paramba, Firjith Lutf, Abdo Abuhmaira, Mohamed Milad Elzouki, Abdel-Naser Y Cureus Internal Medicine Background and objective Dyspepsia is a common complaint encountered in general clinical practice. The prevalence of clinically significant endoscopy findings in dyspeptic subjects of various age groups and ethnicities in Qatar is not well studied. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of endoscopic findings in previously uninvestigated patients with dyspepsia. Patients and methods We retrospectively studied subjects older than 18 years of age who underwent endoscopy for dyspeptic complaints from January 2011 to December 2017. Subjects who already had peptic ulcer disease (PUD), those who underwent endoscopy for reasons other than dyspepsia, and those with incomplete data were excluded. Results A total of 824 subjects were reviewed for eligibility and 733 were included for analysis. The mean ±SD age of the study subjects was 42.7 ±13.5 years, and 59.5% of the subjects were male. Epigastric pain was the predominant symptom (79.2%) followed by heartburn (26.1%). Abnormal endoscopic findings were noted in 91.8% of subjects. Gastritis (65.5%) and oesophagitis (33.1%) were the most common findings observed. The overall prevalence of gastric ulcers was 4.6%, and it was higher in subjects who were more than 60 years of age (14.1%, p=0.001). Gastric carcinoma was seen in only four (0.54%) subjects. Conclusion Gastritis was the most common endoscopic finding observed followed by oesophagitis. The most common presenting symptoms were epigastric pain and heartburn. The prevalence of gastric ulcers was significantly high in patients above 60 years of age, and the incidence of gastric carcinoma was low in the study population. Cureus 2020-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7688183/ /pubmed/33251073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11166 Text en Copyright © 2020, Badi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Badi, Ahmad Naushad, Vamanjore A Purayil, Nishan K Chandra, Prem Abuzaid, Hassan O Paramba, Firjith Lutf, Abdo Abuhmaira, Mohamed Milad Elzouki, Abdel-Naser Y Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title | Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title_full | Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title_fullStr | Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title_full_unstemmed | Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title_short | Endoscopic Findings in Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia: A Retrospective Study From Qatar |
title_sort | endoscopic findings in patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia: a retrospective study from qatar |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7688183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33251073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11166 |
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