Relación entre los hallazgos radiológicos del aracnoidocele intraselar con la sintomatología en pacientes mayores de 10 años atendidos en el servicio de imagenología del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Enero 2015 - diciembre 2019

Abstract

Background: the intrasellar arachnoidocele is a pathology with nonspecific symptoms characterized by an empty pituitary fossa, diagnosis is usually incidental, but it can have a great impact on quality of life. Objective: to set up the relationship between, the radiological findings of the intrasellar arachnoidocele with the different symptoms and associated pathologies in treated patients at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital (HJCA) from January 2015 to December 2019. Methods: analytical study, cross-sectional. Have been randomly analyzed, 125 clinical records, collected using a form the AS-400 system. Descriptive statistics was applied to establish the relationship between neurological, visual, endocrine findings, comorbidities and arachnoidocele, the association test used were Chi square, reporting prevalence ratio and p value (<0.05), and in addition, the binary logistic regression. Results: 125 clinical records were reviewed, finding a prevalence of 12% of arachnoidocele, observing mainly in women 7.2%; 5.4% were multiparous, in the age group of adults (40 to 64 years) in 7.2%, and especially in overweight patients in 7.2%; the most representative symptom was headache with 14.1%, however a statistically significant relationship was observed only with hyperprolactinemia (PR of 17.83 (p value <0.05)), as well the most common comorbidity found was hypothyroidism in the analysis bivariate presented a statistically significant relationship with RP of 9.33 (p value <0.05).