A retrospective study of 83 patients hospitalized for a jaundice syndrome in the Surgical Clinic of Timişoara Municipal Hospital
Creţu, O.; Nicolau, M.; Mazilu, O.; Ancuşa, D.; Nicolau, R.; Sima, L.; Fluture, V.
Revista Medico-Chirurgicala a Societatii de Medici Si Naturalisti Din Iasi 103(3-4): 114-121
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0048-7848 PMID: 10756936 Document Number: 503414
This is a retrospective study done on 83 patients admitted to surgical department of Timişoara Emergency Hospital in the period between 01/01/1992 and 31/03/1995; 47 patients were males, 36 females with mean age 56.1 years. All patients suffered from jaundice mainly conjugated hyperbilirubinemia. The causes of jaundice were: malignant tumours in 19 (22.9%), chronic diffuse parenchymatous liver disease in 24, stone common bile duct 22, benign biliary strictures and papillary stenosis in 6, extrinsic biliary compression and inflammation in 12. Surgery was done in 47 patients and medical treatment in 36 patients. During hospitalization, complications occurred in 19 patients. The condition of patients at discharge was considered: cured in 30, improved in 38, stationary in 2 and deteriorated in 12. Mortality occurred in one patient.