Abstract
We report a 11-year retrospective study of medical records of 47 hospitalized epistaxis patients at the National Defense Medical College Hospital. The study evaluated multiple factors associated with epistaxis: age, sex ratio, month of hospital admission, site of epistaxis, local/systemic complications, treatments, re-bleeding during hospital admission, and blood transfusion requirements. Eighty-seven percent of patients responded to non-surgical treatments (31; packing, ; 10; balloon placement). However, the remaining patients required surgery (5; IMA embolization; 1; formal arterial ligation). There were no complications due to the surgical treatment. Fifty-seven percent of patients showed complications associated with epistaxis. The most common complication was hypertension (15 cases). According to the results and literature, our procedure for intractable epistaxis was satisfactory. However, we must continue to improve the technique. Key words: epistaxis, intractable epistaxis, clinical statistics
