Categories of the patients attending metabolic clinic, queen Rania Al-Abdullah children hospital

Abstract EN

Objective: To describe the different categories of patients who were seen at the metabolic clinic at QRACH; over a period of eight months; from January the 1PstP to the end of August 2018.

Methods: A retrospective evaluation of patients who attended the metabolic clinic at QRACH in the 1st eight months of 2018.

The metabolic clinic receives different categories of patients from other pediatric clinics at QRACH, and pediatric clinics of other military and non-military hospitals.

There were no age limitations.

Data recorded were; age, gender, parents’ consanguinity, affected family members or relatives, diagnosis and the primary referral clinic or hospital.

Results: 429 patients were included in this study; the ratio of male to female was 1.03:1.

The mean age of patients was 5.62±0.55 years old.

56.9% were known to the metabolic clinic while the neurologic clinic led the referral clinics with 17.5%.

Parental consanguinity was obviously noticed; 55.5% of the patients' parents were first cousins and only22.6% were not related.38% of the patients have a confirmed diagnosis, 15% of the patients have a clinical diagnosis and 47% of the patients have no specific diagnosis.

Conclusion: The metabolic clinic at QRACH is very busy with patients from pediatric clinics and hospitals everywhere in Jordan.

Parents’ consanguinity is very frequent.

Lack of diagnosis is still a large troublesome issue that needs to be solved by the use of more advanced investigations.