Clinical Study of Hospitalized Patients with Severe Epistaxis

Abstract

One hundred patients with epistaxis requiring hospitalization during the past fifteen years were analyzed statistically. Epistaxis was observed more frequently in males (66)than in females (34) and occurred more frequently in May. The bleeding site was more often observed in other than the Kiesselbach's area. The patients exhibited complications due to some systemic diseases, especially hypertension. Almost all cases were treated with conservative balloon tamponade therapies and 38 cases underwent surgery.