Patients Who Underwent Surgury for Hydatid Cyst Clinical Trial
Official title:
Management of Liver Hydatid Cysts: A Retrospective Analysis of 293 Cases From Southern Iran
The current study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic features and complications of liver
hydatid cyst in patients who underwent surgery for CE in Fars province, southern Iran.
A total of 293 patients who underwent surgery for liver hydatid cyst from 2004 to 2018 in
Fars Province, southern Iran, were retrospectively evaluated. The clinical records of
patients were reviewed and the demographic and clinical characteristics of each patient were
assessed.
Fars province with the capital of Shiraz in one of the thirty-one provinces of Iran located
in the southwest part of the country with a population of more than 4.6 million people of
which 67.6% living in urban areas, 32.2% in rural areas and 0.3% live as nomad tribes. The
average temperature of Fars province is 17.8 °C, ranging between 4.7 °C and 29.2 °C and the
annual rainfall is 261mm. Animal farming and agriculture are of great importance as they are
considered as two main economic bases of this province. This type of livelihood has
facilitated the presence of some of the zoonotic diseases such as CE and toxocariasis and
leishmaniasis.
Data Collection Hospital records of a total of 293 patients who underwent surgery for liver
hydatid cyst from 2004 to 2018 in two major university-affiliated hospitals in Fars Province,
southern Iran, were retrospectively evaluated. In all cases, the preliminary diagnosis of
hydatid cyst has been confirmed by postoperative pathological findings. So, the inclusion
criterion of operation with the diagnosis of CE was considered while reviewing the records.
Information such as age, sex, presenting signs and symptoms of hydatid cyst, number and the
specific location of cystic structures, history of relapse, reoperation, characteristics of
the cyst (calcification, puss discharge, multicystic, multiloculated, daughter cyst, rupture,
inflammation, superimposed infection, and septation), early postoperative complications,
diagnostic procedures such as ultrasound scanning, computed tomography, X-rays, pathology
reports, lab data, operation information and, drug therapy were extracted from the hospital
records of each patient. The surgical procedure used for the patients, radical or
conservative, was noted.
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