OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To identify factors influencing the severity of epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). STUDY DESIGN Participants with and without HHT were recruited from a specialist service and online following advertisement by the HHT Foundation International. Both groups were asked to complete a nonbiased questionnaire. METHODS The reported effects of specific tr...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the characteristics of patients who needed a blood transfusion due to epistaxis-caused anemia and to define potential risk factors. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A total cohort of 591 epistaxis patients, prospectively included between March 2007 and April 2008 at the ENT department of the University Hospital of Zurich, was evaluated concerning the need for ...

BACKGROUND Epistaxis is the most common complication of nasotracheal intubation. We compared endotracheal tubes (ETT) obturated with an inflated esophageal stethoscope with normal ETTs with regard to the prevention of epistaxis and navigability, both with and without thermosoftening. METHODS Dental surgical patients requiring nasotracheal intubation were randomly allocated into 1 of 4 groups ...

Epistaxis is very frequented emergency faced by ENT practician around the world, commonly benign but can lead to dangerous morbidities if refractory. Surgical standard treatment and embolization endoscopic ligation are emergent routes of constituting main arsenal face refractory epistaxis with similar success rate. We thus report a low energy-traumatic bilateral posterior treated arterial no re...

BACKGROUND Classical dogma holds that epistaxis is more common in winter months but there is significant variability reported in the literature. No study has yet examined the effect of season, humidity and temperature on epistaxis in a location with as severe weather extremes as seen in Alberta, Canada. The objective of the study is to evaluate for an effect of these meteorological factors on t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Epistaxis is one of the common symptoms encountered in the Otorhinolaryngology department. Many times the cause for epistaxis is not found on anterior and posterior rhinoscopy. The present study was undertaken to assess the role of rigid nasal endoscope in the diagnosis and treatment of epistaxis, where normal anterior and posterior rhinoscopy did not reveal any specif...

need for hospital admission and and success rate patients was 38.30±23.69 years. Trauma was the of treatment modalities of epistaxis. commonest (46.9%) cause followed by Methodology: This study was conducted at hypertension (26.9%). Anterior epistaxis was Department of ENT, Mufti Mehmood Memorial commoner (61.45%) than posterior (20.75%). Teaching Hospital, D.I. Khan, Pakistan from Silver Nitra...

Epistaxis is commonly encountered in otorhinolaryngologic practice. However, severe and recurrent epistaxis is rarely seen, especially that originating from a pseudoaneurysm of the intracavernous internal carotid artery (ICA). We herein present the case of a 32-year-old man who was involved in a motor vehicle accident and subsequently developed recurrent episodes of profuse epistaxis for the ne...

Epistaxis is defined as bleeding from the nose. It is one of the most common rhinological emergencies, making the management of posterior epistaxis a challenging problem for ENT surgeons. Conventional management options in form of chemical cauterisation, anterior nasal packing and posterior nasal packing, are not so much effective and satisfactory. Objective: The objective of this study was to ...