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Objective@# A retrospective analysis aimed to identify the clinical features of patients with descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) to improve the effects of treatment and prognosis.@*Methods@#The clinical data of 59 patients with DNM who were treated in the Department of Oncology of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Affiliated Stomatology Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University and transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) were retrospectively analyzed from March 2010 to March 2020. Statistical analysis was performed to identify the risk factors that were associated with mortality.@*Results @# A total of 59 patients were identified: 21 cases of DNM typeⅠ (35.6%), 19 cases of DNM typeⅡA (32.2%), and 19 cases of DNM type ⅡB (32.2%). All patients with DNM received emergency surgery. Patients with typeⅠ and ⅡA underwent anterior mediastinal xiphoid incision and drainage combined with thoracic drainage. The thoracic mediastinum was completely debrided, and postoperative drainage was performed in type ⅡB patients. Pus samples from all 59 DNM patients were cultured for bacteria, and 19 of them were positive. Systemic antiinflammatory therapy was administered. Five patients died (8.5%), and 54 patients survived (91.5%). Compared with the survival group, the mortality group had a higher proportion of patients aged ≥ 65 years, with diabetes, with an interval from admission to ICU ≥ 6 days, with an APACHE Ⅱ score ≥ 20 days, with a duration of ICU treatment ≥ 10 days, and with septic shock, with statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). @*Conclusions@#Timely transfer to the intensive care unit for treatment combined with early active surgery and timely treatment of systemic diseases and systemic antimicrobial therapy is the key to reducing DNM mortality.
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OBJECTIVES@#This study aimed to compare and analyze the consistency and difference between metageno-mic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and conventional bacterial culture in the detection of pathogenic microorganisms in maxillofacial space infection, as well as to provide a new detection method for the early clinical identification of pathogenic bacteria in maxillofacial space infection.@*METHODS@#The clinical data of 16 patients with oral and maxillofacial space infections in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from March 2020 to June 2020 were collected. mNGS and conventional bacterial culture methods were used to detect pus. We then analyzed and compared the test results of the two methods, including the test cycle, positive detection rate, anaerobic bacteria, facultative anaerobes and aerobic bacteria detection rates, distribution of pathogenic bacteria, relative species abundance, and resistance genes.@*RESULTS@#The average inspection period of mNGS was (18.81±3.73) h, and the average inspection period of bacterial culture was (83.25±11.64) h, the former was shorter than the latter (@*CONCLUSIONS@#Compared with conventional bacterial culture, mNGS has the characteristics of short test time, high sensitivity, and high accuracy. Thus, it is a new detection method for the early identification of pathogenic bacteria in maxillofacial space infection and is beneficial to the early clinical diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
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Humans , Bacteria/genetics , High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing , Metagenomics , Sensitivity and Specificity , TechnologyABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of pathogens in patients with oral and maxillofacial in-fection.Methods A total of 73 patients with oral and maxillofacial infection in our hospital from January 2012 to December 2016 were selected.The sputum samples were isolated and cultured,and gram positive bacteria susceptibility test was performed by GN201 method.Gram negative bacteria susceptibility test was performed by GP method.Results A total of 71 strains of pathogen-ic bacteria were isolated from 73 cases of diabetic patients with oral and maxillofacial infections..Among them,there were 48 strains of gram negative bacteria,accounting for about 67.61%,21 strains of gram positive bacteria,accounting for 29.58%,and 2 strains of fungi accounting for 2.82%.Among gram negative bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae was the most,in 19 strains,followed by 17 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa,9 strains of Escherichia coli,3 strains of others;among gram positive bacteria,Staphylococcus aureus were the most,in 10 strains,followed by 8 strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis,3 strains of Enterococcus;gram negative bacteria were mainly resistant to ceftazidime,levofloxacin.The resistance rate of Klebsiella pneumoniae to ceftazidime was 94.74%, and the resistance rate to levofloxacin was 68.42%;the resistance rate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to ceftazidime was 100.00%,and the resistance rate to levofloxacin was 88.24%.The gram positive bacteria were mainly resistant to penicillin G and vancomycin;the resistance rate of Staphylococcus aureus to penicillin G was 90.00%,and the resistance rate to vancomycin was 100.00%;the re-sistance rate of Staphylococcus epidermidis to penicillin G was 87.50%,and the resistance rate to vancomycin was 75.00%.Conclu-sion Oral and maxillofacial infection in diabetic patients are mainly Gram-negative bacteria.The resistance rates of major Gram-negative bacteria were relatively high to ceftazidime and levofloxacin.The resistance rates of major gram positive bacteria to penicil-lin G and vancomycin were relatively high.
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16 death cases of oral and maxillofacial space infection were analyzed.10 of the 16 patients were over 60 years old,the other 6 were aged 49-57 years,most of them had systemic underlying disease,and 11 of them were with diabetes mellitus.Odontogenic infection is the leading cause of maxillofacial infections(n =13).Lethal factor in oral and maxillofacial space infection is various,and comprehensive treatment should be given.
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Objective:To review and compare the clinical features and treatment outcomes of oral and maxillofacial space infection (OMSI)between diabetic and non-diabetic patients.Methods:Clinical data of 43 diabetic patients with OMSI(simultaneoustly treated by blood sugar control)and 84 of non-diabetic patients with OMSI were reviewed,the clinical features and treatment outcomes were compared.Statistical analyses were conducted by T test,the chi square test and variance analysis.Results:Diabetic patients with OM-SI were older(P =0.000),had more spaces involved concurrently(P =0.035 )and had higher blood sugar at presentation(P =0.000).There was no significant difference between groups about the use and change of antibiotics,the incision times,hospital stay durition and the incidence of the complications.Conclusion:The prognosis of the diabetic patients with OMSI under the strict control of the blood glucose concentration has no significant difference from the non-diabetic patients with OMSI.Diabetic patients with OMSI have older age and more spaces involved,and special attention should be paid.
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Objective To explore the clinical effect of patients of oral and maxillofacial space infection treated with improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen, and the possibility of using this method to decrease the hospital expenses. Methods 156 patients with oral and maxillofacial space infection were divided into control group, closed negative pressure drainage group and improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen group by random number table. 52 patients in each group. The granulation tissue growth time, the healing of wound, clinical effect of the 8thday, hospitalization days, wound healing time, antibiotic cost, average cost in hospital were recorded after treatment. Results The average wound healing time of patients in improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen group was(6.06 ± 0.23)days, while the granulation tissue growth time was(16.13 ± 2.89)days, both of them were much shorter than the control group[(15.46 ± 4.68)days and(28.60 ± 3.50)days respectively],as well as the closed negative pressure drainage group [(7.43 ± 0.75) days and (22.67 ± 4.34) days respectively], and the differences were statistically significant which the F values equaled to 6.213 and 8.451, P values all less than 0.05. The total healing rate of patients in closed negative pressure drainage group and improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen group were both 100.00%(52/52), the difference was statistically significant compared with control group (χ2=6.89, P<0.05). The average hospitalization days of the patients in the closed negative pressure drainage group and improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen group were (8.20 ± 1.49) days and (7.45 ± 0.42)days, the antibiotic cost were(5 068.34 ± 1 074.68)RMB and (5 001.00 ± 456.00) RMB, the average total cost were (9 457.43 ± 647.23)RMB and (9 249.00 ± 367.00)RMB, all these indexes were much lower that which in control group[(18.40 ± 5.89)days,(21 000.43 ± 2 036.48) RMB and (31 000.66 ± 2 711.36) RMB], and the differences were statistically significant, F values equaled to 15.221, 29.434 and 81.220 each, P values were all less than 0.01. Conclusions Improved closed negative pressure drainage combined with hyperbaric oxygen method could improve the clinical effect of patients with oral and maxillofacial space infection, speed up the granulation tissue, shorten the in-hospital time as well as reduce the medical cost.
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Objective: To evaluate the application of two-dimension and color Doppler ultrasound in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of fascial space infection in maxillofacial region. Methods: Retrospective analysis was conducted on 87 cases of maxillofacial space infections, among which there were 6 suspected cases of accompanying tumor.Results: In the 87 cases, 53 had abscess formation, confirmed by operative drainage or puncture biopsy. The pathological studies revealed 2 cases of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and 1 case of branchial cleft cyst accompanied with infection. The 3 cases showed characteristic appearance in ultrasonic imaging. The space infection presented stronger echogenicity than that in tumors. In this study, 95% (83/87) cases showed grey or medium echogenic dots, while 4.5% (4/87) cases did not show obvious echogenic dots due to a large amount of abscess, and 2 cases of tumors, however, did not show any echogenic dots. In addition, 87% (76/87) cases had few blood flow in the lesion areas, and 22% (2/87) cases had much blood flow in the lesion areas. All cases showed that the lesion areas and the blood flow reduced obviously with enhanced echo following anti-inflammatory treatment except 2 cases accompanied with tumor without obvious changes in lesion areas and blood flow.Conclusion: The ultrasonic diagnosis with two dimension and color Doppler ultrasound has high accuracy in diagnosis of maxillofacial space infection, with accordance rate up to 96.6%, much higer than CT/MRI. It is suggested that the two dimension and color Doppler ultrasound can be used as a prior choice of diagnosis.