TY - JOUR ID - TI - Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Findings in Children at Rapareen Teaching Hospital in Erbil, Iraq AU - Dlair Abdulkhaleq Chalabi PY - 2020 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 337 EP - 340 JO - Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية SN - 1812156X 23126760 AB - Background: Gastrointestinal disorders are a frequent health problem in children and information on digestive disease in children is lackingin most developing countries. The development of flexible esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with small diameter and the practice of thepediatricians have made gastroscopy feasible at all ages and promote more precise diagnosis and plan for therapy. Objectives: It has beencarried out to demonstrate indications and findings of endoscopy in children. Materials and Methods: An observational study involved allpatients who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy at Rapareen Teaching Hospital for pediatrics during the period from April 1, 2019to March 1, 2020. Results: During the study period, 84 patients underwent EGD. The mean age of patients was 6.99 ± 3.84 years rangingfrom below 1 year up to 14 years, majority of patients were above 5 years of age, and males constitute 65.5% of the study sample. Higher theage (whether mean or above 5 years) the more prone to have abnormal findings and upper gastrointestinal bleeding was the most commonindication, while gastritis was the most frequent finding (34, 29.5%). Conclusion: Upper GIT endoscopy is an important tool in digestivedisease diagnosis and most children referred had abnormal findings aid decision making and further management. Upper GIT bleeding wasfrequently reported and higher proportion of patients were male predominantly above 5 years of age.

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