Principales enfermedades urológicas, características y mortalidad de los pacientes atendidos por consulta externa de urología en el año 2014 en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca- Ecuador

Abstract

Introduction: urological diseases are a public health problem because of its high prevalence in the general population in addition to the complications involved. For solve the trouble, we decided to start an investigation to rank these pathologies in order of frequency. Of course we may also have to take into account that it wasn’t make a study with similar characteristic since 1997.

Objective: to determine frequency of most common urological diseases; to understand characteristics and mortality of patients visited in urological out-patient of Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital in 2014 in the city of Cuenca.

Methodology: We made a detailed study, based on medical records of patients treated by Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital urological out-patient between January and December 2014. Data collection was made using the validated form with information from the hospital records of a urological clinic. The data were tabulated in the SPSS 15.0 software. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics: frequencies, percentages and measures of central tendency.

Results: the most frequent pathology is been benign prostatic hyperplasia (31.3%), followed by urolithiasis (21.5%). The rarest ones were cryptorchidism (1.1%) and neurogenic bladder (1.1%). The highest percentage of people who needed to be hospitalized was 44.6% because of benign prostatic hyperplasia . Mortality was Studied and analized in patients hospitalized or patients undergoing surgery. No death case found