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Letter to the Editor
Comments on Peritonsillar Infections: A Prospective Study of 100 Consecutive Cases
Comentario sobre las infecciones periamigdalinas: estudio prospectivo de 100 casos consecutivos
Francisco Javier García-Callejo
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jgarciacall@hotmail.com

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, Vicente Escorihuela-García, Ignacio Pla-Gil, Jordi Calvo-Martínez
Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We read with great interest a work on healthcare in peritonsillar infections<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> published recently by your Journal&#44; and would find it highly constructive to reopen the debate on its therapeutic alternatives&#46; Our centre offers tertiary healthcare coverage for a population of 350<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>000 and we can corroborate the epidemiological aspects reported by the authors regarding the distribution by age and gender&#44; relationship with acute pharyngotonsillitis&#44; second episodes and time between onset of symptoms and consultation&#46;</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We conducted a prospective monitoring from January 2005 until June 2012&#44; which allowed us to collect 812 cases and observe an increase in incidence &#40;from 75 in 2005 to 129 in 2011&#41;&#44; the appearance of bilaterality in 1&#46;4&#37;&#44; and a similar amount of phlegmonous and abscessified forms &#40;49&#46;1&#37; vs 50&#46;9&#37;&#41;&#46; Adequate and direct training of colleagues in primary care has failed to reverse this trend&#46; This implies that the symptoms are unpredictable&#44; even in a context of immunosuppression as discussed by other authors&#46;</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Therefore&#44; we observed that our percentage of peritonsillar abscesses was greater than that presented by Costales-Marcos et al&#46;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> without reaching that reported by other communications&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The diagnosis of peritonsillar abscess in our environment has been established according to puncture-aspiration of suppurative collections or to the presence thereof through incision and drainage of the suspicious region under pulverised topical anaesthesia&#44; despite obtaining a negative puncture&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Out of 398 cases diagnosed with abscesses&#44; puncture was negative in 87 cases&#46; Whilst also assuming a significant anaerobic component in the aetiopathogenesis of the disorder&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#44;4</span></a> the opening of the suppurative collection ensures focal detoxification&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a> Peritonsillar abscesses point to the prestyloid space and&#44; although this muscular diaphragm tends to protect the large vessels&#44; it lacks a defined anatomical limit which prevents caudal progression&#46; Our series included 8 cases with parapharyngeal collection &#40;1&#46;3&#37;&#41; and 2 with mediastinal involvement &#40;0&#46;2&#37;&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">These small percentages&#44; the detection of 21&#46;8&#37; of abscesses through incision-drainage and the clinical verification of immediate improvement following drainage&#44; strongly recommended this manoeuvre&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;5</span></a> which is adequately tested in the training period of resident physicians&#44; equally simple and with a low cost&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Recommending admission for 1 night&#44; hospital stay in 772 patients with peritonsillar infection was not more than 24<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#44; with a mean period of 40<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>h&#44; still higher than that reported by other authors&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Patients were treated with amoxicillin-clavulanate and clindamycin&#44; along with intravenous steroid support from the time of admission&#46; The empiricism of antibiotic therapy is due to the frequent absence of any isolates caused by prior antimicrobial therapy&#44; as well as easy contamination with oxygen of anaerobic suppurations&#46; In general&#44; coverage against <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Streptococcus</span> spp&#46; and anaerobes should not be delayed by days&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3&#8211;5</span></a> Corticosteroid therapy rapidly relieves trismus by pterygoid irritation&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Upon discharge it is only necessary to extend this antibiotic treatment for 1 week orally&#44; in a similar way as reported by the authors&#46; The incidence of a second abscess or peritonsillar phlegmon remains at 4&#46;5&#37; of cases&#44; but hospital stay and cost are optimised accordingly&#46;</p></span>"
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