Prevalencia de la enfermedad de Dupuytren en pacientes del servicio de cirugía plástica del HTMC desde el 2021 al 2023.

Abstract

Introduction: Dupuytren's disease is a pathology that affects the palmar fascia, slowly progressive, annoying, and disabling, the only absolute resolution of which is surgery. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of Dupuytren's disease in HTMC in the period 2021 to 2023. Materials and Methods: This is an observational, retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study that had a population of 51 patients diagnosed with Dupuytren who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, admitted to the Plastic Surgery Service of the HTMC, data collection was obtained by means of the AS400. Results: A prevalence of 0.24% was obtained, where the most prevalent sex was male 54.9% (n=28), the most frequent age group was 61-70 years 31.37% (n=16), among the comorbidities the presence of hypertension and diabetes together was the most prevalent 33.33% (n=17), the presentation of right-sided disease was the most frequent 47.05% (n=24), the BMI group<24.9 had a higher prevalence of 42% (n=21). Conclusions: The sex with the highest prevalence was male. The most frequent age group was 61-70 years, and the most prevalent comorbidities were the combined presentation of hypertension and diabetes.