A study analysis showed that people with severe nosebleeds had a lot of bleeding in certain areas.
Konkuk University Hospital Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department Ha-min Jeong and Professor Jin-guk Kim (corresponding author) reported in the Brazilian Journal of OtorhinoLaryngology that people with severe nosebleeds often bleed from the S-point, the upper part of the nose. did.
According to Professor Kim Jin-guk, severe nosebleeds are known to be mostly posterior bleeding, with underlying diseases such as high blood pressure, and common in obese people.
The subjects of this study were 139 of the 268 patients hospitalized for nosebleeds who were not bleeding anteriorly. As a result of analyzing their medical records, about 29% of the cases where the bleeding point was an S-point in the upper nasal septum of the nose. In addition, there were many patients with low body mass index (BMI), and many of them had mild anemia.
Conversely, posterior bleeding other than S-point was more common in patients with high BMI and no anemia. In addition, there was no difference in bleeding points according to underlying diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and sinusitis.
Professor Kim Jin-guk said, “With this study, severe nosebleed patients have a high incidence of S-point, which is an upper bleeding, and are not related to the underlying disease.” It will help.”
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