UNLABELLED Epistaxis is the main otorhinolaryngology emergency and, in severe cases, it can lead to hemodynamic instability and be life threatening. AIM To evaluate factors involved in epistaxis resistant to nasal packing that needed surgical treatment, as well as post-surgical results. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study from January 2002 to August 2007. 40 consecutive patients that u...

Children often present to emergency departments (EDs) with uncontrollable nose bleeding. Although usually due to benign etiologies, epistaxis may be the presenting symptom of an inherited bleeding disorder. Whereas most bleeding disorders are detected through standard hematologic assessments, diagnosing rare platelet function disorders may be challenging. Here we present two case reports and re...

Our objective was to measure short- and long-term outcomes of children presenting with recalcitrant idiopathic epistaxis. The study was an 11-year (2000-2011) retrospective chart review of children evaluated and treated for epistaxis. A retrospective review of patients with diagnostic International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision code 784.7 (epistaxis) and 21.5/21.88 (septoplasty) wa...

Dear Sirs, We read with great interest Supriya and colleagues’ article ‘Epistaxis: prospective evaluation of bleeding site and its impact on patient outcome’, published recently in The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. Despite the our belief that management of the epistaxis depends on the departmental policy and experience of the clinician, Supriya and colleagues’ article generated some questio...

OBJECTIVE To review the role of angioembolization in the control of intractable epistaxis at our institution. METHODS A retrospective review of the charts of the patients between Jan 2001 to June 2010 at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi was done. All patients who underwent angioembolization for intractable epistaxis were included in the study. Patients with nasal or nasopharyngeal mass w...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Topical Sesame/Rose geranium oil compound is an effective therapy for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) associated epistaxis. STUDY DESIGN Cohort Study. METHODS Twenty patients with HHT confirmed by the Curaçao criteria were treated with a sesame/rose geranium oil topical compound between January 2010 and June 2011. A treatment evaluation survey was conducted...

Objective: To review and analyze the incidence, causes, management and results of treatment in patients who were treated for nasal bleeding. Materials and Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was conducted on patients of epistaxis, admitted to Combined Military Hospital Multan during a two years period from January 2005 to December 2006. Incidence, sex, age, cause of bleeding, associat...

Traumatic carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) presents most commonly as a direct connection between the cavernous segment of internal carotid artery (ICA) and cavernous sinus (CS), and often accompanies basal skull fracture (BSF). The most frequently reported signs and symptoms are proptosis, chemosis, and bruit. Epistaxis is uncommon symptom of CCF. A 63-year-old man with a history of BSF due to b...

Leech infestation can cause many different clinical symptoms such as epistaxis, haemoptysis, haematemesis, and vaginal bleeding. Therefore leech infestation should be considered as a cause of unexplained severe anemia in rural areas where aquatic leeches are common. In this paper we report a case of pharyngeal leech infestation (Limnatis nilotica) presenting with haemoptysis, and epistaxis whic...