Abstract
Objectives: To analyze the findings of upper GI endoscopic examination carried out in order to assess the prevalence of upper GI disorders in the examined patients.Design and setting: A retrospective clinical case series study done over a 10 years period from the 1st of October 1998 to the 1st of October 2008, at the Endoscopy Unit of Al Salam Teaching General Hospital during which a total of three thousand seven hundreds and nineteen upper GI endoscopic examinations were performed and analyzed.Results: The mean age of our patients was 39.8 years and male to female ratio was 1.29:1 (males 56% and females 44%). Out of the total number of patients (3719), a sum of 1322 (35.5%) patients were typed as normal on endoscopic assessment while 2397 (64.5%) patient were found to retain abnormal findings with the duodenal lesions being the commonest 64%, followed by esophageal one 19%, then gastric lesions 17%. Duodenal ulcer was the most frequently recovered pathology [689 (29%) patients] followed by duodenitis [483 (20%) patients], then by gastroesophageal reflux disease [363 (15%) patients] that is followed by gastritis [312 (13%) patients].Conclusions: Upper GI lesions are frequent in Mosul population. The upper GI endoscopy is a valuable mean in the assessment of upper GI symptomatology. Keywords: GI, gastrointestinal.
