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  • Rhinology
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Medical Imaging

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  • Nasal patency assessment is crucial for evaluating surgical outcomes.
  • The nasal cycle, a physiological change in nasal congestion, can confound objective measurements.
  • Accurate differentiation between surgical effects and nasal cycle variations is needed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for accounting for the nasal cycle in objective nasal patency comparisons.
  • To illustrate this method using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models.
  • To improve the precision of preoperative and postoperative nasal patency assessments.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective review of 24 patients with nasal airway obstruction.
  • Selection of 2 patients with significant reciprocal mucosal engorgement changes.
  • Creation of 3D models from CT scans and simulation of nasal cycle variations using CFD.
  • Calculation of nasal resistance and heat flux.

Main Results:

  • Patient A showed paradoxical worsening of nasal obstruction preoperatively before accounting for the nasal cycle.
  • After accounting for the nasal cycle, patient A demonstrated slight postoperative improvements.
  • The magnitude of surgical effects varied for patient B when the nasal cycle was considered.

Conclusions:

  • Simulating the nasal cycle allows for the separation of surgical impacts from physiological changes.
  • This method enables more precise comparisons of objective nasal patency measures.
  • Accurate virtual surgical planning may be enhanced by this approach.