Early Period Results and Clinical Characteristics of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Sivrihisar State Hospital

Aim: Our aim was to identify the characteristics of the patient that performed upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in a new established endoscopy unit of a state hospital. We want to present the spectrum of gastrointestinal diseases in our hospitals region. Material and Method: We analyzed patients upper endoscopy results according to age, sex, complaints, clinical characteristics, type of anesthesia, and the necessity of biopsy. We reviewed 256 patients data between 2013 December-2014 July. All endoscopies were performed by same surgeon. Results: The highest complaint was epigastric pain (n=112, 43, 8%). Other complaints were followed as dyspepsia (n=84, 32.8%), heartburn (n=42, 16.4%), nausea (n=4, 1.6%), vomiting (n=2, 0.8%), dysphagia (n=6, 2.3%). We determined 218 gastritis (85.2%), 64 hiatal hernia (25%), 120 esophagitis (46.9%), 76 duodenitis (29.7%), 4 gastric ulcer (1.6%), 18 duodenal ulcers (7%), 20 bile reflux (7.8%), 26 Gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in patients (10.2%). 10 patients reported as normal (3.9%). Biopsy was performed in 186 of the patients. Discussion: Endoscopy can become an early diagnostic examination by increasing the availability of endoscopy. Also alarm symptoms should not be ignored and endoscopy should perform immediately in symptomatic patients. As an early result of upper gastrointestinal endoscopies that performed in this study; gastritis, esophagitis, duodenitis and hiatal hernia are common gastrointestinal diseases in our region