Resumen

MARRERO SUAREZ, Yolaine et al. Main clinical, endoscopic and histological diagnosis in aged patients with gastric and duodenal disorders. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.9, pp. 1238-1246. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and retrospective study of 257 old men with gastric and duodenal disorders, according to clinical endoscopic and histological results who were admitted in the Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Departments of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out during the biennium 2010-2011, with the aim of characterizing them and to identify the main diagnosis in them. Among the gastric and duodenal diseases the gastric ones prevailed; also, the male sex, the age group 70-79 years and the antral gastritis as endoscopic finding prevailed. It was demonstrated that a high number of patients were infected by Helicobacter pylori and that the density of slight colonization was distinguished as the gastric lesion progressed

Palabras clave : aged man; gastric and duodenal disorders; gastric diseases; antral gastritis; Helicobacter pylori; secondary health care.

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