2022, Number 3
Assessment of the behavior of causal factors in infant gastrointestinal bleeding
Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 1-9
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: gastrointestinal tract bleeding is infrequent in pediatrics. Although most of the causes are not life-threatening, it requires an approach that allows the physician to make an early diagnosis and assess the severity of the bleeding, as well as the selection of complementary diagnostic and therapeutic studies.Objective: to assess the clinical behavior presented by the causal factors of digestive bleeding in children at Provincial Pediatric Teaching Hospital of Pinar del Río, during the period 2019- 2021.
Methods: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study in a sample comprised of 49 children chosen by means of a simple random sampling and having the inclusion criteria. The application of a survey allowed the collection of information to analyze the variables studied. For the analysis of the results, descriptive statistical methods such as absolute and relative frequencies were applied.
Results: the group aged one to five years was predominant (44,9%). Inadequate diet (43,3 %) and constipation (40,0 %) were identified as basic risk factors. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding predominated (84,3 %), with anal fissure (24,2 %) and rectal polyps (16,1 %) as the main causes.
Conclusions: it occurs more frequently in children under 5 years old, in the urban area, rectorrhagia and hematemesis were the main clinical symptoms and signs, lower gastrointestinal bleeding predominated with perianal fissure and polyps as main causes.
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