Study population.
ascites, CKD, chronic kidney disease, fibrosis, gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, splenomegaly, dwarfism, COPD, gastroesophageal variceal bleeding
ASCITES, COLORECTAL CANCER, COLORECTAL POLYP, RESPIRATORY FAILURE, GASTROINTESTINAL ULCER BLEEDING, RIGHT HEART FAILURE, SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, COPD, FIBROSIS, HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, DWARFISM, METABOLIC SYNDROMES, MINIMAL HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, COMPLICATIONS, PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
From January 2017 to January 2022, 4,865 first-visit inpatients with advanced schistosomiasis japonica were enrolled retrospectively.The work flow of our study.From the electronic medical records, 15 commonly isolated complications were identified preliminarily: metabolic syndromes, minimal hepatic encephalopathy, hepatic encephalopathy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary hypertension, respiratory failure, right heart failure, gastroesophageal variceal bleeding, gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, splenomegaly, fibrosis, chronic kidney disease (CKD), ascites, colorectal polyp, and colorectal cancer. Because there were few cases of dwarfism, we did not include this in further analyses. The isolated complications were treated as dichotomous values. Values were marked as positive if any of the isolated complications existed; otherwise, they were marked as negative.