Anatomical variation of the posterior septal artery leads to refractory epistaxis.

IF 1.8 4区环境科学与生态学 Q2 FISHERIES

Marine and Freshwater Research Pub Date : 2023-07-04 eCollection Date: 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1002/wjo2.113

Dong-Jiao An, Zu-Fei Li, Xiao-Chang Zhao, Jin-Feng Liu

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Abstract

Purpose: To report a rare variant of the posterior septal artery (PSA), which supplies blood to the posterior mucosa of the contralateral nasal septum.

Case report: A 31-year-old female patient underwent suture removal 14 days after septoplasty and developed left-sided epistaxis 6 h after suture removal. To safely and effectively relieve the patient from epistaxis, the cauterization of the left PSA was performed under general anesthesia. However, 24 h after the first surgical hemostasis, the patient experienced epistaxis again in the right nasal cavity. We have reviewed the patient's sinus computed tomography again and found a rare variant of PSA, which is the right-sided PSA passing through a bony canal in the left-sided nasal septum.

Discussion: The variant of PSA well explained the failure of the first hemostatic surgery. Therefore, we again performed a cauterization of the right-sided PSA, after which the patient recovered and no further epistaxis occurred.

Conclusion: When cauterization of PSA is used to manage posterior epistaxis, it is necessary to pay attention to the possible variation in PSA.

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鼻中隔后动脉的解剖变异导致难治性鼻衄。

目的：报告鼻中隔后动脉（PSA）的一种罕见变异，该动脉向对侧鼻中隔后部粘膜供血：一名 31 岁的女性患者在鼻中隔成形术后 14 天接受了拆线手术，拆线后 6 小时出现左侧鼻衄。为了安全有效地缓解鼻衄，患者在全身麻醉下接受了左侧 PSA 烧灼术。然而，第一次手术止血 24 小时后，患者右侧鼻腔再次出现鼻衄。我们再次查看了患者的鼻窦计算机断层扫描，发现了一种罕见的 PSA 变异，即右侧 PSA 穿过左侧鼻中隔的骨性管道：讨论：PSA 的变异很好地解释了第一次止血手术的失败。因此，我们再次对右侧的 PSA 进行了烧灼，术后患者恢复良好，没有再发生鼻衄：结论：在使用 PSA 烧灼术治疗后鼻衄时，有必要注意 PSA 可能存在的变异。

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Marine and Freshwater Research 环境科学-海洋学

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3.8 months

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