Prevalence of upper gastro intestinal endoscopy findings in endoscopy referred patients at Mosul City : a ten years retrospective study

الملخص EN

Objectives : to analyze the findings of upper GI endoscopic examination carried out in order to assess the prevalence of upper GI disorders in the examined patients.

Design and setting : A retrospective clinical case series study done over a 10 years period from the 1 st of October 1998 to the 1st of October 2008, at the Endoscopy Unit of Al Salam Teaching General Hospital during which a total of three thousand seven hundreds and nineteen upper GI endoscopic examinations were performed and analyzed.

Result : the mean age of our patients was 39.8 years and male to female ratio was 1.29 : 1 (males 56 % and females 44 %).

Out of the total number of patients (3719), a sum of 1322 (35.5 %) patients were typed as normal on endoscopic assessment while 2397 (64.5 %) patient were found to retain abnormal findings with the duodenal lesions being the commonest 64 %, followed by esophageal one 19 %, then gastric lesions 17%.

Duodenal ulcer was the most frequently recovered pathology [689 29 % patients] followed by duodenitis [483 (20 %) patients], then by gastroesophageal reflux disease [363 (15 %) patients] that is followed by gastritis [312 (13 %)] patients.

Conclusions : Upper GI lesions are frequent in Mosul population.

The upper GI endoscopy is a valuable mean in the assessment of upper GI symptomatology.