BACKGROUND Chronic rhinosinusitis affects millions of North Americans and has been increasing annually since 1991. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) done with the use of computer assistance (CASS) and without the use of computer assistance on patient quality of life. As of this writing, there is no published study that measures the diff...

A one-step surgical procedure is presented, including maxillary sinus floor elevation in association with functional endoscopic sinus surgery to remove rhino-sinusal malformations or pathoses that might contraindicate sinus floor elevation. Over a 2-year period, 10 patients requiring a sinus floor augmentation procedure to restore the missing dentition with endosseous implants, but presenting w...

OBJECTIVE Disagreement between results of skin prick test (SPT) and nasal provocation tests (NPT) causes difficulty in differential diagnosis of allergic rhinitis (AR) and nonallergic rhinitis (NAR). We hypothesized this discrepancy could be due to the nonspecific hyper-reactivity (NHR) and localized allergy of the nasal cavity. STUDY DESIGN Prospective pilot. SETTING Academic tertiary rhin...

INTRODUCTION Septoplasty, or surgical correction of the deviated septum, is an elective, routinely performed rhinologic procedure to address nasal airway obstruction. In many cases, resected septal cartilage and bone fragments are sent for pathologic review, although there is no consensus on this practice. We reported two cases of incidentally diagnosed lymphoma after elective septoplasty and d...

BACKGROUND There is no consensus about the value of objective measurements of nasal patency. OBJECTIVE To assess the correlation between the subjective sense of nasal patency and the outcomes found with rhinomanometry and acoustic rhinometry. TYPE OF REVIEW Structured literature search. SEARCH STRATEGY AND EVALUATION METHOD: Review of English-language articles in which correlations were sou...

E tube dysfunction represents one of the most frequent otic pathologies, being the starting point for almost all the acute or chronic otic inflammatory processes and their consequences. Tubal dysfunction and otitis media with effusion are the most frequent pathologies within the pediatric population. During their first seven years of life almost 70% of children present at least one episode of E...

Cologne, Germany; Praxisgemeinschaft im Kapuzinerkarree, Aachen, Germany; Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. Background: Our investigation aimed to visualize the 3-D spatial distribution of nasal cavity mucosal swelling under levocetirizine prophylactic treatment on exposure to allergens. This study made use of standard rhinologic diagnostics such as rhinomanometry and aco...

Cologne, Germany; Praxisgemeinschaft im Kapuzinerkarree, Aachen, Germany; Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. Background: Our investigation aimed to visualize the 3-D spatial distribution of nasal cavity mucosal swelling under levocetirizine prophylactic treatment on exposure to allergens. This study made use of standard rhinologic diagnostics such as rhinomanometry and aco...

IMPORTANCE Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) have reduced sleep quality linked to their overall well-being and disease-specific quality of life (QOL). Other primary sleep disorders also affect QOL. OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of comorbid obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on CRS disease-specific QOL and sleep dysfunction in patients with CRS following functional endoscopic sinus sur...