E. C. B. M. Miranda, Fernanda Araújo Santos, A. Marinho, M. Dias, Suzana Maria Klautau Ferreira, Renan dos Santos Cortinhas, G. Sousa, Francisco de Almeida Teixeira Neto, V. D. P. R. Guimarães, Igor Nascimento Batista, Caio Nogueira Oliveira, P. N. D. S. Graim, Anderson Phelipe Dias Sabry Azar, Alvaro Alves dos Santos Neto
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Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the demographic, ethyological and clinical aspects of patients with liver cirrhosis treated in the Chronic Liver Disease Center.
Methods: a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study based on the analysis of 580 pacients’ medical records with the diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis treated from 2004 to 2014 in Belém, Brazil.
Conclusions: the profile was predominantly of male patients, aged between 51 and 60 years, coming from the capital Belem, whose main etiologies of cirrhosis were C hepatitis and alcohol. Ascites was the most frequent clinical manifestation and Child-Pugh score A was the most prevalent.