Estimation of electrolyte in sera of patients with gallstone

الملخص EN

Thirty patients with gallstone )aged 25-55 years( and thirty age- and sex-matched healthy subjects as control group were involved.

Those patients were intended to undergo surgical removal of gallbladder in the surgical ward- Al Sadder Teaching Hospital and AL-Hakeem Hospital in Najaf city during the period from July/2009 to December / 2009.

The proportion of female was (86%) compared to the male (14 %).

The ratio of female: male was 5:1.

Blood samples were obtained from all patients prior to surgery.

Serum was obtained by usual methods and analyzed for electrolytes , calcium, sodium, potassium, and chloride.

The results showed that there were no significant differences between gallstone patients and control regarding sodium, potassium, and chloride (p>0.05) but there was significant difference (p > 0.05) in the concentrations of calcium comparing with the control group.

The study also showed that the sex has a significant effect (p>0.05) on the level of calcium in sera of patients with gallstone whereas, non significant sex variation had found with respect to sodium, potassium and fluoride.

On the other hand, it was also found that there was a significant (p > 0.05 ) age variations with respect to serum levels of calcium with effect with respect to sodium, potassium and chloride level in sera of patient with gallstone.

Additionally, all items of electrolyte found to be not significantly (p > 0.05) varied with respect to the BMI except the calcium level.

Whereas all the electrolyte show significant difference (p > 0.05) in smokers patients comparing with non-smokers patients except potassium level (p > 0.05).

The objective of this study was to estimate the serum electrolytes, in sera of patients with gallstone and investigate their relationship with demographic factors.