Analysis of Autopsy Results in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis over 2015-2018

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the mortality structure of patients with liver cirrhosis over 2015-2018 in Gomel.

Material and methods. A retrospective cohort analysis of 130 findings of postmortem autopsy of patients with liver cirrhosis has been performed (data of the departments of Gomel Regional Pathology Bureau at Gomel Regional Infectious Clinical Hospital, Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3 and Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 2, 2015-2018). The age and gender structure of the patients, etiology and cause of death were analyzed. The data were entered and analyzed in MS Excel, 2010.

Results. Most frequently, the patients with cirrhosis die at 50-59 and usually of hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), gastrointestinal bleeding, and acute posthemorrhagic anemia. Non-viral hepatitis as a cause of cirrhosis is more prevalent (61.5 %) than viral hepatitis, while the etiology for more than a third of the cirrhosis cases (38.5 %) is not determined. Most of the patients who died were of the working age (67.7 %) and mainly males (56.2 %). More than a third of the patients (38.5 %) had been dependent on alcohol, while only 11.5 % patients had been dia nosed with alcohol related cirrhosis.

Conclusion. Thus, liver cirrhosis is still a socially topical issue for young ablebodied people. There remains a tendency to underestimate the alcoholic etiology of cirrhosis, as well as the uncertainty of the etiology of a significant part of detected cirrhosis cases.