Ashfaque Ahmed, Farhana Memon, Fariya Usmani, Saima Sagheer, Sadaf Iqbal, Rabiyya Ali

Effect of Duration of Biliary Patenting on Quality of Life in patients with Obstructive Jaundice

Ashfaque Ahmed, Farhana Memon, Fariya Usmani, Saima Sagheer, Sadaf Iqbal, Rabiyya Ali



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ABSTRACT

Aim: Effects of duration of biliary patenting on quality of life in patients suffering from obstructive jaundice.

Methodology: A case control study in OPD of general surgery, Unit-1, Civil Hospital, Karachi, by using non-probability consecutive sampling technique. The sample size is 195 subjects with the age of 20-80 years for both the genders. Ethical approval was taken from the concerned department. 105 patients had a duration upto 12 months since biliary patenting whereas 90 patients had duration >12 months since biliary patenting.

Results: Mean duration since biliary patenting was 11.9±3.7 months whereas 105 (53.8%) of them had biliary patenting within last one year while 90(46.2%) of them had biliary patenting over a year ago. Moreover, their mean total SF-36 quality of life score was 55.2±12.5. There was a statistically significant effect of duration since biliary patenting on quality of life of obstructive jaundice patients (p<0.01) where patients who had biliary patenting within the last year had significantly higher SF-36 QOL scores than patients who had biliary patenting >one year ago.

Conclusion: In obstructive jaundice, quality of life was observed more better in those patients who had a duration upto 12 months than those who had duration >12 months since biliary patenting

Keywords: Obstructive jaundice, Bile duct obstruction, malignant, polyp.



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