Vol.95 No.9 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 95 No. 9 September 2002
Clinical Study of Hospitalized Patient with
Recurrent Epistaxis
Makoto Miyamoto, Akihiko Nakamura, Hiroki Ikeda,
Manabu Ogura and Toshio Yamashita
(Kansai Medical University)
Sixty-seven patients with epistaxis requiring hospitalization during the past nine years were analyzed statistically. Seven those of 67 patients complained of recurrent epistaxis and were comprisal of an approximately equal number the same of men and women. All patients except one were middle aged or older. Six patients were complicated by systemic diseases, especially hypertension, and were treated with medication. All cases except case 1 showed the same recurrent lesion at the bleeding point. Their treatments during hospitalization included hemostatic medication and tampon. Two cases of recurrent patients underwent brain angiography and arteriovenous malformation was found in one case. We conclude that recurrent epistaxis patients, especially those of the suspected of arteriovenous malformation need to undergo brain angiography recurrent vascular system.
Key words : epistaxis, hypertension, hospitalized patients, arteriovenous malformation