Caracterización de pacientes en tratamiento de hemodiálisis, Hospital General Puyo. 2018

Abstract

The present degree work was to characterize the patients in treatment with hemodialysis has been the main objective, for this a descriptive study was carried out, of cross section, retrospective, in the Puyo General Hospital, Pastaza Province, during perido between January to December 2018. A total of 64 cases were analyzedwhere it was evidenced that the most frequent cause for hemodialysis treatment is diabetic kidney disease with 33%, followed by unidentified renal disease with 25%, in third place hypertensive kidney disease with 20%, finding in lower percentages obstructive uropathy as is autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with 6%, Alport's disease reaches 5%, and approximately 3% represent primary membranous glomerulopathies and multiple myeloma 2%. The most frequent gender is the masculine one with 52% in comparison with a 48% of the feminine gender. It was observed that the most affected age group is 61 to 81 years old with 48%. The 61% of the cases analyzed belong to the city of Puyo, Pastaza Province. In addition, it was found that 78% of patients have an arteriovenous fistula as vascular access. It is concluded that chronic diabetic kidney disease is the main cause of treatment with hemodialysis in patients who come to the renal unit of the Puyo General Hospital. This study is of special importance because it is a contribution of primary data for new investigations and because of the late diagnosis of diabetic kidney disease in these patients.