Evaluación entre el estado nutricional y ascaridiasis en vía biliar en el Hospital General Puyo período 2016-2018

Abstract

The objective of this research was to evaluate the relationship between nutritional status and biliary ascariasis, as well as age, gender, symptomatology, and treatment with more frequency in this pathology. The work began with the collection of the sample through the database from Puyo General Hospital, hospital logbook of the surgery service and patient’s medical records. With the data obtained, a matrix was elaborated with the diagnosis of biliary Ascaris in patients; average, median, and Min-Max were calculated for the specific frequencies and percentages. The prevalence of this pathology was 26% (50), the average weight occupies the 54% (27) and the low one 22% (11), the average age was 46 years, women hold 78% (39). Abdominal pain was the most common symptom, with 98% (49), and the most used treatment was albendazole 400 mg QDx3d 34% (17). It was determined that in the Ecuadorian Oriente is high, and the low weight has a slight relationship with this entity. The majority of cases are observed in women; on the contrary in children, it is infrequent due to the smaller caliber of the bile duct. The support of imaging tests such as endoscopic cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), computerized axial tomography (CT) and first ultrasound, is necessary for the diagnosis, the treatment is clinical, although in isolated cases surgical intervention is required.