Makale Arama

Despite all these advances in medical treatment, sinusitis is still one of the most important reasons for intracranial sepsis. Complications of sinusitis is not very common but; the rapid spread of the infection to orbital and the intracranial tissue can be raised very serious and high mortality complications such as subdural empyema, meningitis, brain abscess and cavernous sinus thrombosis. Therefore, it is important to know where sinus infections can spread. In this case report, a 26 year old female patient was presented with periorbital cellulitis, venous thrombosis and meningitis developed as a complication of sinusitis.

Concha bullosa is a common anatomical variant of intranasal anatomy. Eighty-six patients who had paranasal sinüs infection were evaluated with CT for lateral nasal wall variations. İt was found that 22 % of the patients had concha bullosa at least on one side. İt was seen that paranasal sinüs infections developed vvithout concha bul­ losa and on the other hand, 15 patient that operated endoscopic surgery was shovvn that this prosedüre is useful for the treatment of sinusitis in cases with concha bullosa.

TENS is low frequency siniizoidal electric sti-mulation for the use of treatment pain and chronic inflamation in the recent past. We report on 38 pa-tients who were treated TENS, TENS with nıedical treatment and only medical treatment. In result we estahlished TENS should be seen as effective by tretmen of pain and sinüs drainage. There were any complication in patients who the use of TENS.

Specimens obtained with sinüs aspiration from 21 patients with chronic sinusitis were microbiologically examined. Fifteen microorganisms from 10 (47.6%) patients were isolated as causative agents. From the samples of five patients only one type of microorganism isolated but from the samples of the other patients 2 different types of microorganisms isolated. 12 Of the microorganisms isolated were identified aerobes, 2 of them as yeasts and one of them anaerobe. Bacterias were İdentified as alpha hemolytic Streptococcus, Neisseria spp., Diphteroid rod, Streptococcus pneumoniae, coagulase negative Staphylococcus, Enterobacter cloacae, Proteus mirabilis and fungus were Candida albicans.

İn a patient who applied to our outpatient clinic with productive coughing and exertional dyspne vvith a long time history, we established Kartagener’s syndrome. That’s why this syndrome is rare and easly confused with other pulmonary diseases we are presenting this case.