JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v4i3.2342 jpsim.v4i3.2342 Original Research Frequency of Esophageal Varices in Chronic Liver Disease Patients & its Relationship to Mean of Ratio of Right Lobe of Liver to Serum Albumin Concentration Saeed Muhammad Furqan Mumtaz Sami Ullah drsummumtaz@gmail.com * Nawaz Kashif Aziz Bilal Nazar Tazeen Maqsood Shumaila King Edward Medical University/ Mayo Hospital Lahore *Correspondence: Sami Ullah Mumtaz (drsummumtaz@gmail.com) 25 09 2023 2023 4 3 210 213 24 04 2023 15 06 2023 Copyright © 2023 The Author(s) 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

Aim of present study is to find the frequency of esophageal varices in CLD patients & its relationship to the mean of ratio of right lobe of liver to serum albumin concentration.

 Methodology

This cross sectional study was completed in Department of Gastroenterology, Mayo Hospital Lahore in six months. After ethical approval, 200 diagnosed patients of CLD recruited using non-probability purposive sampling technique. An informed written consent was acquired from each patient & endoscopy was done for the presence of esophageal varices, ultrasonography to measure right lobe of liver and serum sample to check albumin levels. All patients were then divided in two groups’ i.e. esophageal varices (A) and other without varices (B). The ratio of right lobe of liver to serum albumin concentration was calculated for both groups. Data was analyzed using SPSS Version 26.0.

 Results

Out of 200 patients, 109 (54.5%) had esophageal varices while 91(45.5%) had no varices while mean ratio of right lobe of liver and serum albumin concentration among the two groups revealed high ratio in esophageal varcies group as compare to without varices group i.e. 39.92+7.43 versus 34.53+5.27 respectively.

 Conclusion

The frequency of esophageal varices was high in CLD patients while mean of ratio of right lobe of liver to serum albumin concentration was markedly high among patients having varices compared to those lacking varices.

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