Analysis of Colonoscopic Diagnosis in Terms of Age, Gender and Symptoms

Abstract

Objective: It was aimed to analyze the relationships between gender, age, and symptom combinations, and the diagnoses determined in colonoscopy. Methods: Demographic data, symptoms, and colonoscopy results of all patients who un- derwent colonoscopy in our hospital’s endoscopy unit in 2018 were obtained from the hospital records and analyzed. Results: The mean age was 54.5±14.6 years. A total of 66.3% of the patients were over 50 years old. A total of 7.3% of colonoscopy procedures could not be completed. In 168 patients (5.4%) there was fecal occult blood (FOB) positivity, 1900 (60.7%) had rectal mac- roscopical bleeding, 1893 (60.4%) had constipation, and 1975 (63.1%) had abdominal pain. No abnormal findings were found in 1616 (51.6%) of the patients as a result of colonoscopy, 699 (22.3%) had polyps, 43 (1.4%) had cancer-like masses. The polyp detection rate was significantly higher in patients with positive FOB alone (p=0.003) or patients with rectal bleeding and/or constipation (p=0.001) and significantly lower in patients with constipa- tion (p=0.034). The rates of FOB positivity (p