طراز الامراض التنفسية في مستشفى الحسين التعليمي في مدينة السماوة == The Pattern of Respiratory Diseases in Al - Hussain Teaching Hospital in Samawa City
Author name:
مثنى فيصل الظالمي
Supervisor name:
عدنان الجبوري
General topic:
Medicine
Specific topic:
Diseases - Thoracic
Degree:
Higher Diploma
University:
University of Baghdad - Faculty Of Medicine
Language:
English
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
19T1526 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Background : Respiratory diseases are responsible for a major burden of morbidity and untimely death, with conditions such as asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease the most important in world health terms..Objective : to estimate the pattern and to determine the incidence of respiratory diseases among patients admitted to medical wards.Patients and Methods : A retrospective study carried out at AL Hussain Teaching hospital in Samawa city )ALMuthana governoret) during a period from October 2013 to July 2014. 951 patient of both genders were enrolled in this study.Results : The mean age of the studied patients was 49.4 ± 18.1 (range : 15 - 99) years; the higher proportion of patients 244/951 (25.7%) aged > 60 years and the least proportion of patients 75/951 (7.9%) aged < 20 year females were the dominant gender among the studied group; 510/951 (53.6%) and the remaining 441/951 patients (46.4%) were males, with a female to male ratio of 1.16 : 1, Smoker patients were 263/951 represented 27.7% of the studied group, Asthma was the more frequent respiratory disease among the studied group (33.3%) followed by Pneumonia in (22.4%),andChronic obstructive pulmonary disease in (22.1%) . The higher mortality rate was reported among the patients with lung cancer (33.3%), followed by ILD (12.5%) .Conclusion : female was the dominant gender among studied group. Asthma was the more prevalent respiratory disease followed by Pneumonia, .the longer duration of admission was reported in patients with lung abscess.The higher mortality rate was reported in patient with Lung cancer followed by Interstitial Lung Disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
