Epistaxis : retrospective study of hospitalized patients

Abstract EN

Background : Epistaxis is a common otolaryngological emergency and is often due to lesions within or around the nose or due systemic conditions.

Aim of the study : To describe the cases of epistaxis that are admitted at our hospital.

Study design : Retrospective, descriptive study.

Place and time : This is a retrospective study described the cases of epistaxis that are admitted to Al Sader Teaching Hospital, Najaf-Iraq from January 2009 to December 2011.

Patients and method : The study evaluated 20 cases of epistaxis that were admitted in Al-Sader Teaching Medical City in Najaf–Iraq from the period of January 2009 to December 2012.

The hospital records of the patients were reviewed and data collected regarding.

age, gender, type of epistaxis, methods of treatments, any associated systemic disease (s) and the time of hospital stay.

These variables were collected, tabulated, analyzed and compared with other similar studies.

The results : Twenty cases of epistaxis that required admission to Al-Sader Medical city were enrolled in our study.

We found that epistaxis has bimodal age of presentation with 8 (40 %) patients at age 20-29 year and 8 (40 %) patients at age of 60- 69 year.

Male to female ratio was (2.3 : 1).

Anterior epistaxis was more common than posterior epistaxis.15 patients (75 %) had some sort of systemic diseases ; the most common was hypertension in 8 (40 %) patients.

Non surgical method of treatment in the form of nasal packing was performed in all patients.

The mean hospital stay was (3.85) days.

NO mortality detected in our study.