Prevalence of Endoscopy at Idris Teaching Hospital Sialkot Medical College, Sialkot

Abstract

Objective: To study Prevalence of Endoscopy At Idris Teaching Hospital Sialkot Medical College Sialkot.
Study Design: Experimental and Observational study
Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at Idris Teaching Hospital Sialkot during Jan 2018 to July 
2019.
Materials and Methods: This study comprises 1021 patients undergoing endoscopic examination.The demographic 
data was noted down and lab tests were also advised for example hepatitis A, B and C HIV. Written informed 
consent was also taken from every patient before the start of the endoscopic examination. The Permission of ethical 
committee was also considered before collection of data and get publishing in the medical journal. The results were 
analyzed on SPSS version 10.
Results: Mean Age was 45.34 years and SD(standard deviation) was 16.23 years. At the age of 10-20years , there 
were 50(10.18%) male and 51(9.62%) female of endoscopy were included in this study. At the age of 21-30 years 
there were 101(20.57%) male and 85(16.04%) females. At the age of 31-40 years there were 100(20.36%) male and 
75(14.15%) female, At the age of 41-50 years there were 101(20.57%) male and 130(24.52%) female , at the age of 
51-60 years there were 25(5.09%)Male and 75(14.15%) female , At the age of 61-70 years there were 75 (15.27%) 
male and 85(16.04%) female, at the age 70 years and above there were 35(7.12%) Male and 29(5.47%) females 
patients were included in the study. It was observed that female patients of endoscopy were more prevalence than 
male patients. It was observed that there were 175(35.64%) Male and 201(37.92%) female patients at the high 
socioeconomic status , in the middle socio economics status there were 187(38.10%) Male and 210(39.62%) female 
, in the low socio economic status there were 129(26.27%) Male and 119(22.45%) female patients of endoscopy 
were found in this study. It was observed that there were more patients of endoscopy in middle class than high 
gentry and lower class. From urban area, there were 230(46.84%) Male and 300(56.61%) female and from rural area 
261(53.15%) male and 230(43.40%) female patients of endoscopy were observed in this study. It was also observed 
there was more prevalence of endoscopy patients from rural area than urban area.
Conclusion: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy is the only reliable tool for correctly determining the etiology of UGIB. 
We observed esophageal varices as the main cause of UGIB in our setup which is similar to those in local literature 
but different from those in western literature. Predominance of varices as a cause of acute UGIB reflects high 
prevalence of CLD due to viral hepatitis.