Clinical characteristics of adults with fatty liver disease diagnosed by ultrasonography admitted at the DLSUMC from August 2013 to July 2014
Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Research
Abstract
The aim of this study is to retrospectively describe the clinical characteristics of admitted who were diagnosed with fatty liver disease by ultrasonography among patients admitted at the DLSUMC from August 2013 to July 2014. Out of 988 patients admitted and underwent abdominal ultrasound throughout the duration of the study, more than half were found to have abnormal liver, and fatty liver disease being the most common. Majority of the patients with fatty liver disease by ultrasonography were Filipino living in Cavite and belong to mean age of 50 with a slight female preponderance. The most common comorbidities associated with patients with fatty liver disease were hypertension, diabetes mellitus and cardiac disease. For the blood chemistry panel, overall, patients had elevated FBS, tryglycerides, uric acid, ALT, AST and alkaline phosphatase. Only 5% of patients with fatty liver were indicated to have hepatomegaly.
APA Citation
Valenzuela, Abigail L. and Gamutan, Maria Teresita, "Clinical characteristics of adults with fatty liver disease diagnosed by ultrasonography admitted at the DLSUMC from August 2013 to July 2014" (2015). Resident Research. 143.
https://greenprints.dlshsi.edu.ph/resident-research/143