Caracterización de pacientes con Linfoma de Hodgkin en una institución de salud en Medellín, Colombia.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize patients diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a highly complex health institution in the metropolitan area of Medellín, Colombia. METHOD: Retrospective cohort study, which included patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Information gathering was done by review of medical stories. The data obtained were recorded on Microsoft Excel and analyzed in the IBM SPSS version 22 program. RESULTS: 117 patients were collected, 51 % were female. Of the total of patients, 42 % had a diagnosis of classic lymphoma and 2 9 % were diagnosed in stage II. Regarding imaging studies, the most commonly used diagnostic method was the computed tomography in 86 % of patients. 77 % of the population had ambulatory followup while a mortality of 9 % was found. CONCLUSION: The characterization of the population with this pathology in Medellín, Colombia, according to the found in the literature, is presented without predisposition by sex, the most frequent type of lymphoma is the classic with stage II; the diagnostic helps that prevailed was a study with good diagnostic performance such as computed tomography, which denotes a good diagnostic approach and patient follow-up. Mortality found in the population managed in this institution was 9%, a value that is not considered negligible.