Abstract:Objectives To investigate risk factors for postoperative intracranial infection after nasal endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, in order to provide a reference for later treatment. Methods Selected 80 cases treated by nasal endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea from January 2010 to 2015 as study object, retrospective analyzed the clinical data such as the patient's age, gender, etiology, leak size, the leak location, prior intracranial infection, prophylactic antibiotics and postoperative application of antibacterial drug > 7 d, the number of operations, whether or not the operation using artificial materials, repair materials, repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea failure and by nasal endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea occurred between intracranial infection. Results 4 of them (5.00 %) occurred intracranial infection. CSF bacterial culture show 8 strains of pathogenic bacteria were isolated, including 3 cases of leather of gram negative bacteria and 5 strains of leather of gram positive bacteria and gram positive bacteria were mainly Staphylococcus aureus and accounted for 40.00 %. Univariate analysis showed that repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea failure, improper surgical procedures, previous intracranial infection history, the choice of restorative materials and the size of the leak diameter > 1 cm and after endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea postoperative intracranial infection have some relevance (P < 0.05). Logistic multivariate analysis showed that repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea failure, improper surgical procedures, previous intracranial infection history, the choice of restorative materials and the size of the leak diameter > 1 cm of intranasal endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea independent risk factor for postoperative intracranial infection (P < 0.05). Conclusions Skull size of the leak diameter > 1 cm, previous history of intracranial infection, cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea repair a variety of factors fail, surgery failure factors are likely to increase patient after endoscopic repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea intracranial infection the incidence.