Deep neck infections of odontogenic origin and their clinical significance. A retrospective study from Hradec Králové, Czech republic

Title:

Deep neck infections of odontogenic origin and their clinical significance. A retrospective study from Hradec Králové, Czech republic
Deep neck infections of odontogenic origin and their clinical significance. A retrospective study from Hradec Králové, Czech republic

Creator:

Doležalová, Helena, Zemek, Jaroslav, and Tuček, Luboš

Contributor:

Doležalová, Helena, Zemek, Jaroslav, and Tuček, Luboš , 1966-

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:bmc16011072-6e257fe1-7b86-406e-9944-26decf6c0ce8
uuid:bmc16011072-6e257fe1-7b86-406e-9944-26decf6c0ce8
local:bmc16011072
http://actamedica.lfhk.cuni.cz/
doi: 10.14712/18059694.2015.98
local: bmc16011072

Subject:

mladiství, dospělí, staří, staří nad 80 let, celulitis--diagnóza--epidemiologie--mikrobiologie, dítě, předškolní dítě, ženské pohlaví, lidé, mužské pohlaví, lidé středního věku, krk, retrospektivní studie, sociálně ekonomické faktory, nemoci zubů--komplikace--mikrobiologie, and mladý dospělý

Type:

model:article, article, Text, časopisecké články, and TEXT

Format:

print, text, and regular print

Description:

INTRODUCTION: Cellulitis remains a very serious disease even today. Mortality, which varied between 10-40%, has been reduced owing to the standard securing of airway patency and use of an appropriate surgical treatment approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 195 patients were hospitalised for cellulitis at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové during 2007-2011. The following parameters were evaluated: age, gender, dependence of incidence of the disease on the season of the year, frequency of attacks of the particular areas and their clinical characteristics, aetiology of the inflammation, types of patient complaints, prevalence of current systemic diseases, results of microbiological and selected laboratory analyses, socio-economic status of the patients, and duration of patient stay at the hospital. Statistical analysis was performed by using Pearson's correlation coefficient, the statistical significance level was p < 0.05. RESULTS: The mean age of the patients was 39.8 years. The group of 195 patients included 108 (55%) males and 87 (45%) females. The mean time between the first symptoms of the disease and admission to the Department was 5 days. From among the 195 patients, 116 (59.5%) were working persons, 79 (40.5%) were non-working (children, students, unemployed persons, women on maternity leave, retired people). The odontogenic origin of the disease was verified in 173 (88.7%) patients. In total, 65 (33.3%) patients had no coinciding complicating systemic disease, 22 (11.3%) patients had diabetes mellitus. The most frequent symptom of cellulitis was painful swelling, found in 194 (99.5%) patients, followed by jaw contracture, found in 153 (78.5%) patients. CONCLUSION: The results are largely very similar to those of previous studies performed in other countries, except that we found no correlation between the prevalence of cellulitis and the socio-economic status, nor have we confirmed Klebsiella pneumoniae sp. as the cause of cellulitis in patients with diabetes mellitus. and H. Doležalová, J. Zemek, L. Tuček

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

Česká republika

Relation:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové) Universitas Carolina, Facultas Medica Hradec Králové--MED00010947

Source:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové) | 2015 Volume:58 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

false

Date:

2015