Hallazgos ultrasonográficos en hepatopatías de niños y adolescentes en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Cuenca, 2016-2019

Abstract

Background: Childhood liver diseases are diverse. An important point mentioned in the literature regarding treatment is that it will differ between diseases, but its main basis is the performance of liver transplant in 60 to 80% of patients who develop the disease in early childhood. Liver diseases depending on the duration of their evolution, can be acute and chronic, with infectious hepatitis being the most common in the first group and hepatic steatosis in the second. Its incidence is expected to increase over time, generating greater morbidity and mortality, as well as future complications. Objetive: to determine the ultrasonographic findings in liver disease of children and adolescents treated at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital. Cuenca, from to 2016-2019. Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional study. Was analized the clinical history of 220 patients between 5 to 19 years of age, who underwent an abdominal ultrasound in the period 2016-2019, once de inclusion criteria were met, a form was prepared with the sociodemographic variables (age, sex, nutritional status calculated using the BMI and the qualitative variables resulting from the abdominal ultrasound (parenchyma echogenicity, hepatomegaly, portal wall hyperechogenicity, ascites, thickening of the gallbladder wall). The statistical analysis was carried using the SPSS program and Microsoft Excel 2010. Frequencies and percentages were used for the qualitative variables and mean, standard deviation, asymmetry, kurtosis and the Kolmogórov-Smirnov test for the quantitative ones. Conclusions: the prevalence of liver disease was 39,10%.