Characteristics of liver cirrhosis patients: A literature review

Abstract

Introduction: Based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), there is an increase in the number of deaths due to liver cirrhosis from year to year, with the death rate reaching 905,418 in 2000 and soaring to 1,161,914 in 2015. According to a 2016 government public hospital report in Indonesia, The prevalence of liver cirrhosis is estimated at 3.5% of total internal medicine patients, or an average of around 47.4% of all patients treated for cirrhosis. This research using the literature review method aims to describe the characteristics of liver cirrhosis sufferers (gender, etiology of liver cirrhosis, age, child-turcotte-pugh) in Indonesia. Methods: The type of study in this research is a literature review using secondary data in the form of literature that meets the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria for this research are literature that has been published in the last 10 years, can be accessed in its entirety, literature set in Indonesia, and meets the search keywords. The exclusion criteria in this study were literature with the type of study in the form of a review. Results: A literature search conducted on Google Scholar and Pubmed found eight pieces of literature that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Eight pieces of literature are descriptive observational studies. The total samples obtained from the eight pieces of literature were 1010 samples. The time span of the literature obtained was 2015-2023. Before data extraction, each piece of literature was assessed for risk of bias using JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) critical appraisal. Conclusions: Based on literature review research, cirrhosis sufferers are more likely to suffer from men (685 samples), the elderly age group (>45 years) with hepatitis B etiology (477 samples), and Child-Turcotte-Pugh score category C (397 samples).