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Saeed Alsharif1,2, Karin Jonstam3,4, Thibaut van Zele1
1Upper Airway Research Laboratory, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Objectives:
Nasal polyps are often characterized by type 2 inflammation and disease recurrence. We developed a new surgical technique, referred to as reboot approach, which aims to maximally remove all sinus mucosa and allow healthy re-epithelialization from the preserved nasal mucosa. We here review type 2 endotype chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) patients who underwent classical mucosa-sparing endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) or the reboot approach.
Methods:
Retrospective case-control study of 50 consecutive CRSwNP patients who underwent endoscopic sinus surgery between 2015 and 2017, either as a classical non-reboot ESS (n = 20); a partial reboot approach removing the mucosa of the ethmoidal, sphenoidal, and maxillary sinuses (n = 18); or a complete reboot approach including Draf III and removal of all frontal sinus mucosa (n = 12). Polyp recurrence over the follow-up period of 2 years served as the primary outcome.
Results:
All patients demonstrated a type 2 inflammation of the mucosal tissue harvested during surgery. In the classical approach group (n = 20), nine patients relapsed within 2 years (45%); in the partial reboot group, three out of 18 patients (17%) relapsed; and in the full reboot group one out of 12 patients (8%) relapsed. The relapse rates were significantly different between the non-reboot and the reboot groups (P = 0.02) but also between all treatment groups (P = 0.038).
Conclusion:
Complete removal of diseased mucosa from the paranasal sinuses (reboot approach) significantly reduces the recurrence of nasal polyps for 30 months postoperatively compared to the current mucosa-sparing approach in type 2 inflammatory CRSwNP.
Level Of Evidence:
3b Laryngoscope, 129:1286-1292, 2019.
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