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Symptom Assessment of Patients with Allergic Rhinitis Using an Allergen Exposure Chamber
Published on: March 3, 2023
[Radiological findings in patients with perennial allergic rhinitis]
P Montero Mora1, B Espinoza Goldman, A M González Espinosa
1Servicio de alergia e inmunologia, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS.
Background:
Rhinitis is clinically defined by obstruction, sneezing, pruritus and rhinorrhea.
Material And Method:
There were studied 69 consecutive patients, from clinical immunology and allergy service of Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI.
Results:
53 of them were women and 16 were men, all of them with ages between 15 and 55 years. They all had perennial allergic rhinitis, 50.7% of them had atopy, 47.8%, asthma as an added disease, 27.5%, nasal polyposis and 44.9%, sinusitis, in maxillary sinus 59.9%, in ethmoid 36.2% in 7.2% frontal. With septal deviation 33.3%, in 7.2% septal deviation with spur, obstruction of the osteomeatal complex in 4.3%, turbinate hypertrophy in 53.5%, polyps in 27.5% and bullous conchae in 7.2%. The diagnosis was performed by axial computerized tomography of paranasal sinuses. The chi square determined the association between structural alterations and the presence of sinusitis, with p = 0.001, with close relation between allergic rhinitis and sinusitis.
Conclusions:
Diagnosis and appropriate treatment proved to be very important in handling this disease.
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