Factors Associated with Intestinal Atresia and Its Complications
الباحث الأول:
hayder naemah hassan
المجلة:
Proceedings of the 1st International Ninevah Conference on Medical Sciences (INCMS 2021)
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
Intestinal atresia occurs as 1.3 to 3.5 cases per 10,000 live births, and the understanding of the factors associated with occurrence and complications of intestinal atresia. The current study’s goal is to evaluate the various forms of intestinal at…
Intestinal atresia occurs as 1.3 to 3.5 cases per 10,000 live births, and the understanding of the factors associated with occurrence and complications of intestinal atresia. The current study’s goal is to evaluate the various forms of intestinal atresia, and factors associated with intestinal atresia and its complications. Thirty-two infants diagnosed with intestinal atresia were included in the current study. The study was conducted at Al-Zahra Teaching Hospital in Al-Najaf city, in Iraq, during the period between October 2018 to March 2021. The results of the current study show most of neonates have gestational age of 36 weeks (37.5%), those with birth weight less than 2.5Kg (75%), those age at presentation between (4-5) days (50%), those with hospital stay (4-7) days (46.9%), male patients (59.4%), those with no associated anomalies (65.6%), those with no complications (68.8%), type is IIIa (28.1%), and finally only (18.8%) of them had died. The results of the current study show the significant relationship between type of intestinal atresia with complications (p value = 0.02). It was concluded that the most common type of jenunoileal atresia is IIIa. There is an association between complications of intestinal atresia and each of: birth weight, gestational age and hospital stay. It was also concluded relationship between type of intestinal atresia and complications.
