Chronic Rhinosinusitis: What Constitutes Standard Of Care?

Main Category: Ear, Nose and Throat
Article Date: 20 Mar 2005 - 10:00 PDT

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According to a study presented today at the 2005 AAAAI Annual Meeting in San Antonio, allergy consultation in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis may be underutilized, causing an increase in surgeries.

Syeda Rubina Inamdar, MD, Medicine, University of Mississippi, and colleagues reviewed records of 3,063 patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Of those, 662 patients were referred for otolaryngology consultation and 309 were referred to an allergist.

Twenty percent of the patients referred to an otolaryngologist underwent surgery for their chronic rhinosinusitis, compared to only 12% of those referred to an allergist. The study also noted that 39 patients underwent surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis without being prescribed an intranasal or oral corticosteroid, which may have helped avoid surgery.

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