Clinico-statistical study on underlying disease of the inpatients in department of oral and maxillofacial surgery Health Sciences University of Hokkaido during past 10 years

• Published in: Journal of Japanese Society of Dentistry for Medically Compromised Patient Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 13 - 20
• Main Authors: Ohmori, Kazuyuki, Kubota, Masaki, Nagayasu, Hiroki, Maeda, Seiichi, Taira, Hirohiko, Shibata, Tosiyuki, Arisue, Makoto, Murase, Hirofumi, Michiya, Hiroyuki, Muto, Tositaka, Kanazawa, Masaaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japanese Society of Dentistry for Medically Compromised Patient 1995
• Subjects: Clinico-statistical study; inpatients; Medically compromised patients; Underlying diseases
• ISSN: 0918-8150; 1884-667X
• DOI: 10.11255/jjmcp1992.4.13

There were 732 inpatients in department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido during past 10 years from April, 1st, 1983 to March, 25th, 1993. Among them, 314 patients (42.9%) had underlying diseases (429) of some kind or the other. There were 153 male and 161 female patients, and these were 41.6% and 44.2% of the inpatients respectively. The average age of the patients was 44.6 years, while that of all subjects was 38.0 years. In the number of the diseases per medically compromised patient, there were 221 patients (70.4%) with a single disease, 93 patients (29.4%) with two or more diseases. In the classification by types of diseases, cardiovascular diseases were the most common (31.9%). Next followed psychoneurotic diseases (16.6%), metabolic diseases (9.6%), hematological diseases (8.2%), etc. In age groups, the most common disease under thirties was psychoneurotic and over forties was cardiovascular. In connection with the finding out the underling disease. 87.2% was showed from the past medical history and status praesens of the patients, while 12.8% was found from laboratory studies. Hematological diseases and digestive tract diseases were hard to find. Two handred nineteen diseases (51.4%), that had been under pt's doctor, continued the medical treatment. Fortyfive (10.5%) out of another two handred ten diseases (48.6%) required to be treated anew.