TY - JOUR
T1 - Caracterización epidemiológica de los pacientes con sinusitis del hospital general del norte de guayaquil los ceibos. Ecuador
AU - Zambrano, Alicia de los Ángeles Morocho
AU - Espinoza Diaz, Cristóbal Ignacio
AU - Borja, James Edward Neira
AU - Verduga, María de Fátima Neira
AU - Córdova, Henrry Sebastián Córdova
AU - Placencia, Xavier Mateo Pesantez
AU - Carrasco, Christian Hernán Morales
AU - Gómez, Adrián Fernando Matute
AU - Sandoval, Michel Andrea Quinteros
AU - Angulo, Erick Alexander Yagual
AU - Villamar, Nexar Isaac Barreto
AU - Cordero, Pedro David Méndez
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Sociedad Venezolana de Farmacologia y de Farmacologia Clinica y Terapeutica. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Maxillary sinus
KW - Sinusitis
KW - Virus
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85070316004
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85070316004
SN - 0798-0264
VL - 38
SP - 112
EP - 114
JO - Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacologia y Terapeutica
JF - Archivos Venezolanos de Farmacologia y Terapeutica
IS - 1
ER -