Etiological Profile of Patients Presenting with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Ibb Governorate-Yemen - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.6, June 2018

Etiological Profile of Patients Presenting with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Ibb Governorate-Yemen ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104683 1,058 Downloads 2,456 Views

Author(s)

Abdulgafoor Kassim, Khalid Al-Qubaty, Ramea Alathwary^*, Sana Ameen

Affiliation(s)

Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Taiz University, Taiz, Yemen.

ABSTRACT

Objectives: To investigate the causes of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) in Yemeni patients and to compare our results with the results of other studies. Design: Prospective study of patients with overt LGIB during the period from April 2017 to March 2018. Setting: Specialized center of gastrointestinal and liver diseases in Ibb city, Yemen. Subjects & Method: Consecutive patients who presented or referred to our center with LGIB to whom lower GI endoscopy was performed. Results: During the study period, we had 122 patients with LGIB, 72 were males and 50 were females, with male:female ratio of 1.4:1 The age ranged between 5 and 82 years and the mean age was 45 ± 17.99 years. The clinical presentations of our patients included hematochezia in 72.1%, abdominal pain in 51.7%, diarrhea in 43.3%, pallor, and anemia in 40.2%, weight loss in 39.3%, constipation in 16.4%, bloody diarrhea in 16.4%, and melena in 5.7%. The most common colonoscopic findings were hemorrhoids in 36.7% followed by colon cancer in 19.7% and nonspecific colitis in 15.6%. Conclusion: Hemorrhoids and colon cancer were the most common causes of lower GI bleeding in our patients.

KEYWORDS

LGIB, Etiology, Colonoscopy, Clinical Features, Yemeni Patients

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Kassim, A. , Al-Qubaty, K. , Alathwary, R. and Ameen, S. (2018) Etiological Profile of Patients Presenting with Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Ibb Governorate-Yemen. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-7. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104683.

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