Caracterización epidemiológica de los pacientes con sinusitis del hospital general del norte de guayaquil los ceibos. Ecuador

Objective: to characterize and describe the epidemiological behavior of patients with sinusitis from the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil Los Ceibos. Methodology: a descriptive, non-experimental, retrospective study was conducted in 435 patients who were evaluated in this center with the diagnoses of acute maxillary sinusitis, acute ethmoidal sinusitis, acute pansinusitis, other acute sinusitis, unspecified acute sinusitis, sinusitis chronic maxilla, chronic ethmoidal sinusitis, chronic ethmoid sinusitis, and chronic pansinusitis. The data were obtained from the hospital clinical records and were analyzed using the software SPSS v.19. Results: Of the 435 patients, 89.4% (n=389) were female, the most frequent age group were <19 years with 29.2% (n=127), as well as the maxillary location with 42.5% (n=185), only 0.7% showed positive findings in the microbiological analysis. Conclusions: sinusitis is a frequent clinical condition in Guayaquil city, being male sex, age groups <65 years and the maxillary sinus involvement the most outstanding epidemiological characteristics in adults who consulted to the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil Los Ceibos.