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Angina Pectoris/diagnóstico , Angioplastia Coronária com Balão/métodos , Vasos Coronários/cirurgia , Angina Pectoris/etiologia , Cateterismo Cardíaco/métodos , Angiografia Coronária/métodos , Vasos Coronários/diagnóstico por imagem , Vasos Coronários/patologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Artéria Subclávia/anormalidades , Artéria Subclávia/cirurgia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
This retrospective study aims to search out the influence of temperature, atmospheric pressure and humidity on the frequency of epistaxis. The study includes 701 patients who have suffered from epistaxis and have been treated in the ENT department of the University of Ioannina Hospital, during the years 1995 and 1996. The statistical methods used are simple linear correlation and linear stepwise regression analysis. The results of simple correlation analysis showed that the daily number of epistaxes depends mainly on mean, maximum and minimum temperature and water vapour pressure. The corresponding correlation coefficients are statistically significant, indicating an influence of weather on epistaxis up to 9% of its total variance. By applying stepwise regression analysis, we managed to increase the linear correlation coefficient and the corresponding amount of variance of epistaxis explained by meteorological factors. This percentage was found to approach 20% for the cold period and 10% for the warm period of the year.
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Epistaxe/epidemiologia , Conceitos Meteorológicos , Pressão Atmosférica , Humanos , Umidade , Análise de Regressão , Estudos Retrospectivos , Estações do Ano , TemperaturaRESUMO
Chronic sinusitis, especially maxillary sinusitis is a common disorder in humans. Seromucous sinusitis is rarely described in the literature. The present study deals with the clinical and laboratory characteristics of a group of patients suffering from the above disorder. During the last 10 years, 32 patients suffering from seromucous maxillary sinusitis were enrolled in the study. Patients' charts were reviewed and tabulated according to age, sex, history, clinical symptoms and laboratory findings. Treatment was based on punction and drainage of the seromucous effluent. Results were also statistically evaluated. Flight trips and atypical episodes of nasal infection were the predisposing factors for seromucous maxillary sinusitis. The only clinical manifestation was coughing, for at least 12 weeks before diagnosis. Sinus effluent was composed by serous and mucous constituents with glue like structure. There were no differences between sexes in predisposing factors, or x-ray findings. The treatment is paracentesis and drainage and in one case of recurrence, middle meatotomy and sinus endoscopy.
