OBJECTIVES This study aims to discuss the management and the follow-up approach in patients with epistaxis. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 367 patients with epistaxis (209 males, 158 females; mean age 52.6±18.3 years; range 18 to 85 years) admitted to the Adult Emergency Department of a university hospital between January 2000 and December 2004 were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Of pat...

A patient with an intracavernous carotid aneurysm usually presents with symptoms and signs of a space occupying lesion, producing one of a variety of types of cavernous sinus syndromes (Jefferson, 1938). Epistaxis is an unusual feature in these patients and when present is nearly always associated with a traumatic aneurysm (Mahmoud, 1979). There are only two reported cases of non-traumatic intr...

3 C. TRANTER, P. GRAYSTOCK, C. SHAW, J. F. S. LOPES and W. O. H. HUGHES 4 5 School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 6 School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton. BN1 9QG, UK 7 3 Pós-Graduação Comportamento e Biologia Animal, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, 8 Campus Universitário de Martelos, 36.036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil 9 10 11 Correspondence: Christoph...

BACKGROUND: Different institutions use different grading systems for hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)-associated epistaxis. It is important to have a universal, standardized system compare and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment options. We introduced “Intensity, Frequency need Blood Transfusion” (IFT) HHT-associated epistaxis in 2008. Hoag et al. proposed “Epistaxis Severity Sc...

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Pedigree and race run data from Thoroughbreds racing in Southern Africa, covering the period 19862002 (63 146 horses in pedigree data-set and 778 532 race runs), were analysed in order to study genetic and environmental factors affecting the incidence of epistaxis as associated with “exercise-induce...