Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria

Oluwole Olaomi; Onyedika Okoye; Oluwale Badejo

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Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria

Oluwole Olaomi, Onyedika Okoye, Oluwale Badejo

Published in International Journal of Gastroenterology (Volume 4, Issue 2)

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Abstract

Colonoscopy has become one of the most important modalities in the assessment of the lower gastrointestinal lesions. This study focused on our early experience with colonoscopy documenting the indications and outcome in the first five years of Colonoscopy in National Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria. This was a retrospective analysis of demographic data, indications for colonoscopy, agents used for bowel preparation, type of anaesthesia used, endoscopic findings, and extent of colon intubation from the endoscopy unit register of National Hospital, Abuja between July 2007 and June 2012. Patients whose data were incomplete or procedure abounded were excluded. Two hundred and eleven patients had colonoscopy during the 5 year period. Only 153 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria and their data analysed. Males were 107 (69.9%) and 46 (30.1%) were females given a male/female ratio of 2.3:1 Age range was 2years to 90years with a Mean of 48.02. The commonest indications were bleeding per rectum (33.3%), haemorrhoids (24.8%) and suspicion of malignancy of the lower gastrointestinal tracts (24.3%). The most common findings on colonoscopy in our study were haemorrhoids (47.7%) and malignancies (24.2%) of various parts of the large bowel. 12.4% of the patients had normal study. Our Ceacal intubation rate was 75.8%. Majority of the lesions were found in the Anorectal region (69.9%) with only 17.7% in the rest of the Colon 24.2% of our findings were malignancies of lower intestinal tract. 97.3% of the malignancies were Adenocarcinoma. 83.8% of the malignancies were located in the left colon. Assessment of lower gastrointestinal symptom is incomplete without colonoscopy. Colonoscopy gives a good yield in well selected patients, it is safe and has low complication rate.

Published in	International Journal of Gastroenterology (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijg.20200402.18
Page(s)	72-76
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Colonoscopy, Experience, Lower Gastrointestinal, Haemorrhoids, National Hospital, Nigeria

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Oluwole Olaomi, Onyedika Okoye, Oluwale Badejo. (2020). Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria. International Journal of Gastroenterology, 4(2), 72-76. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijg.20200402.18

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Oluwole Olaomi; Onyedika Okoye; Oluwale Badejo. Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria. Int. J. Gastroenterol. 2020, 4(2), 72-76. doi: 10.11648/j.ijg.20200402.18

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Oluwole Olaomi, Onyedika Okoye, Oluwale Badejo. Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria. Int J Gastroenterol. 2020;4(2):72-76. doi: 10.11648/j.ijg.20200402.18

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Oluwole Olaomi

Department of Surgery, National Hospital Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
Onyedika Okoye

Department of Surgery, National Hospital Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
Oluwale Badejo

Department of Surgery, National Hospital Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

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Oluwole Olaomi, Onyedika Okoye, Oluwale Badejo. Colonoscopy: Early Experience in National Hospital Abuja Nigeria. Int J Gastroenterol. 2020;4(2):72-76. doi: 10.11648/j.ijg.20200402.18

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  abstract = {Colonoscopy has become one of the most important modalities in the assessment of the lower gastrointestinal lesions. This study focused on our early experience with colonoscopy documenting the indications and outcome in the first five years of Colonoscopy in National Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria. This was a retrospective analysis of demographic data, indications for colonoscopy, agents used for bowel preparation, type of anaesthesia used, endoscopic findings, and extent of colon intubation from the endoscopy unit register of National Hospital, Abuja between July 2007 and June 2012. Patients whose data were incomplete or procedure abounded were excluded. Two hundred and eleven patients had colonoscopy during the 5 year period. Only 153 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria and their data analysed. Males were 107 (69.9%) and 46 (30.1%) were females given a male/female ratio of 2.3:1 Age range was 2years to 90years with a Mean of 48.02. The commonest indications were bleeding per rectum (33.3%), haemorrhoids (24.8%) and suspicion of malignancy of the lower gastrointestinal tracts (24.3%). The most common findings on colonoscopy in our study were haemorrhoids (47.7%) and malignancies (24.2%) of various parts of the large bowel. 12.4% of the patients had normal study. Our Ceacal intubation rate was 75.8%. Majority of the lesions were found in the Anorectal region (69.9%) with only 17.7% in the rest of the Colon 24.2% of our findings were malignancies of lower intestinal tract. 97.3% of the malignancies were Adenocarcinoma. 83.8% of the malignancies were located in the left colon. Assessment of lower gastrointestinal symptom is incomplete without colonoscopy. Colonoscopy gives a good yield in well selected patients, it is safe and has low complication rate.},
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