Chronic Hepatitis. Epidemiologics, clinics and biochemicals facts

Objective: Charaeterize the epidemiology, clinic, and biochemistry of the cases of chronic hepatitis diagnosed by histology in the Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe (HPTU) from Medellin during the last ten years, using the history charts of these patients. Methods: Transversal retrospective case report, in which all the variables where measured once. Central tendeney and dispersion tendeney measures where employed Results: 21 patients with diagnosis of chronic hepatitis by histology were analyzed.The variables age, sex, etiology and diagnostic tests where distributed by frequency. Factors associated with the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis where described as also where their frequency, their complications, their symptoms and their motive for consultation. Conclusions: The study showed a high prevalence of autoirnmune hepatitis and idiopathic hepatitis in the smdied population; however, analyses to the diagnostic tests showed that sorne patients have been group under those diagnostics without previously discarding important differential diagnosis.