Giovanni Giulietti, Barbara Spano', Mara Cercignani, Barbara Basile, Carlo Caltagirone, and Marco Bozzali Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Clinical and Behavioural Neurology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy, Departement of Neuroscience, Universit...

INTRODUCTION Epistaxis is the one of the most common otorhinolaryngology emergencies. This study examined the age and sex distribution of all patients admitted with epistaxis to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in Wales, UK, over a period of 18 years and 9 months. METHODS The Patient Episode Database for Wales was examined for all patient admissions with a diagnosis of epistaxis betwee...

Migraine is a common neurological disorder characterized by painful episodes sometimes preceded by transient neurological symptoms and reversible defined migraine aura. Rarer forms of migraine are hemiplegic migraine, familial and sporadic, the retinal migraine and migraine equivalents. For the two most common forms of migraine with and without aura, the prevalence appears to be higher in femal...

Epistaxis is a frequent presentation in the emergency department and often causes significant anxiety among patients and their relatives. We report a 30-year-old man with mitral stenosis presenting with epistaxis as the initial symptom. He had no other symptoms related to mitral stenosis prior to this episode. Epistaxis is a very unusual initial presentation of rheumatic mitral stenosis.

The aim of this study is to identify the demographics and epistaxis burden of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). A questionnaire was sent to participants with HHT who were recruited from a prospectively maintained respiratory clinic data base in a tertiary hospital. Details on demographics, HHT symptoms, family history, epistaxis severity, and treatment received were recorded. There w...

BACKGROUND There are a paucity of data on epistaxis as it pertains to sickle cell anaemia. Some case studies suggest epistaxis to be a significant complication in patients with sickle cell anaemia in sub-Saharan Africa; however, no robust studies have sought to establish the epidemiology or pathophysiology of this phenomenon. METHODS We conducted a case-control study with the aim of investiga...