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Department of Medicine, Rehman MedicalInstitute, Peshawar,*Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar-PakistanBackground: Hepatitis B and C related chronic liver diseases have led to development of a serious threat to the people of South Asia. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation of magnitude of arterial deoxygention to the severity of liver disease.Methods: It was a hospital based cross-sectional descriptive study,carried out in the Medical Departmentof Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar.All in all 115 patients were assessedfor the severity of the liver diseases and were correlated with arterial deoxygenation using linear regression models.Results:Male to female ratio was 1.5:1.Males infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C and both were 9, 60 and 1, while females suffered from hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and both were 2, 42 and 1 respectively.Thelinear relationship between A-a DO2 withseverity of liver disease showed positive correlation while PO2 showed negative correlationwith severity of liver disease.Conclusion: There wasa positive correlation between A-a DO2 and severity of liver diseases while PO2 and severity of liver diseases showed negative correlation
Dr. Al Aman Shaukat, Adnan Za, Muhammad Zuhaid, Safa Saadat Afridi. (2016) CORRELATION OF DEVIANCE IN ARTERIAL OXYGENATION WITH SEVERITY OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE, JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE ABBOTTABAD, Volume 28, Issue 2.
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