Prevalencia de mastopatías en pacientes de sexo femenino entre 18 a 38 años de edad que acudieron a consulta externa del Hospital de la Mujer Alfredo G Paulson, en el periodo 2018 - 2019.

Abstract

Introducción: Mastitis is the inflammation of one or more breast lobes, with or without infection. The cause of the disease is damage to the epithelium of the ducts, which causes extravasation of glandular secretion into the tissues of the inflamed lobe. Objective: To establish the prevalence of mastitis in female patients between 18 and 38 years of age who attended an outpatient clinic at the Alfredo G Paulson Women's Hospital, in the period 2018-2019. Materials and methods: This research has a qualitative approach, because data collection and analysis and interpretation of the results will be used, and it has a non-experimental design that will be applied in 167 female patients between 18 and 38 years of age who attended an outpatient consultation at the Alfredo G Paulson Women's Hospital, in the period 2018-2019. Results: Among the findings obtained, it was found that the age group with the highest prevalence was made up of 18-25 years. Likewise, it can be evidenced that more than half of the study mass did not present complications outside the daily routine, however, 30% presented pictures of breast abscesses, for its part, the highest incidence indicated by 56% was mastodynia, on the other hand, diffuse chitic mastopathy indicated results of 42%, finally non-purulent mastitis associated with childbirth was represented by 2% of the cases under study. Conclusion: it was evidenced that mastitis is a recurrent and frequent condition that occurs in women, however, according to the data collected in the mass of studies, the incidence of complications is unlikely.