Prevalencia de hallazgos laringoscópicos en pacientes con sintomatología de reflujo laringofaríngeo en personas mayores de 18 años en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo durante el periodo 2018 – 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: Laryngopharyngeal reflux, also known as extraesophageal, is characterized by the retrograde movement of the gastric content of both acids and enzymes such as pepsin towards the laryngopharynx and the posture is independent. Methodology: It is a study with a non-experimental methodological design, with a descriptive, cross-sectional, observational, and retrospective level, in which information was collected from the medical records of patients at the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital with a diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal reflux in people over 18 years during the period 2018 - 2020, relating laryngoscopic findings with clinical symptoms. Results: 20.20% of patients were diagnosed with LPR, in which a prevalence of the female sex was observed with a percentage of 60.6%, the most frequent age group was between 71 to 80 years with a percentage of 26.2%. In addition, it was demonstrated that the most common laryngoscopic finding manifested within the study is erythema/hyperemia with 75.50%, and the clinical symptom was dysphonia with 66.9%, establishing a Spearman correlation between laryngoscopic findings (reflux index table) and clinical symptoms. Conclusion: The study was concluded with the Spearman coefficient associating two variables, the laryngoscopic findings, and clinical symptoms, with values of 0.197 and a level of significance 0.001, which shows a positive correlation between both variables.