The Complications of Sinusitis in a Tertiary Care Hospital: Types, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes

Table 4

Risk (odds ratio and 95% confidence interval) of poor clinical outcomes (recovery with morbidity or death) from sinusitis, classified by types of sinusitis complication, analysed by multinomial logistic regression.

Poor clinical outcomes and types of complication	OR	95% CI		value
Recovery with morbidity
Local	1.67	0.33,	8.40	0.534
Orbital	1.58	0.42,	5.97	0.466
IC	4.61	1.06,	20.08	0.042
CN palsy	3.55	0.85,	14.82	0.082
Death
Local	1.02	0.04,	28.18	0.990
Orbital	4.82	0.15,	156.26	0.376
IC	106.55	2.06,	5512.16	0.020
CN palsy	0.75	0.02,	23.94	0.872

CN: cranial nerve; IC: intracranial.
Adjusted for age, gender, and comorbidities: diabetes, liver disease, chronic renal disease, malignancy, and HIV infections.