AN ASSESSMENT OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS PATIENTS WITH A DEFICIENCY IN THE LEVEL OF SERUM ZINC (Zn)

Objective: Determining the level of serum zinc in liver cirrhosis patients.

Material and Methods: This research study was carried out at Sharif Medical Hospital Lahore. Male and female participants with diagnosed cases of liver cirrhosis and having age 12 years and above were additionally assessed for their serum Zinc level. Software SPSS was used for statistical data analyses and statistically, the important p-value was considered as <0.05.

Result: The assessments and evaluations were made for 130 cirrhotic patients with the means age 40.7560±158890. In 71% patient serum zinc was deficient. As per the Child-Pugh Classification, in class A, B & C there were respectively 12%, 16% and 73% zinc lacking cirrhotic participant subjects. The Participants diagnosed with the Hepatitis C virus were 94%, infected with Hepatitis B virus were 4% and having the history of using alcohol were 2%.

Conclusion: Cirrhosis patients were having the deficiency of serum zinc level.

Keywords: Epidemiology, Gender Factor, Aetiology, Chronic Liver, Gastrointestinal, Liver Cirrhosis.