Description of background pathology in patients with inflammatory diseases of face and neck

Abstract

Despite the use of modern methods of diagnostics and treatment of surgical infections, there is a steady tendency to the increase in severe complications after acute odontogenic infections (abscesses, sepsis, mediastinitis, and secondary intracranial complications). Sepsis associated with purulent-inflammatory processes of the maxillofacial area mainly develops in the presence of background pathology (68.4%). Patients without background disease (64.8% and 83.9%, respectively) predominate in the group of patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome and local forms of purulent infections. The most common background pathology involves the respiratory and cardiovascular systems (60%), and rarely - diabetes mellitus, mainly of the second type (about 20%). The background diseases of the digestive system include chronic viral and toxic hepatitis, the disease of operated stomach, alcoholic disease. Isolated cases are those of chronic renal failure requiring hemodialysis (2.4 percent).