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Endotype of Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps in Morocco
Youssef Darouassi1, Mohamed Amine Azami2, Mohamed El-Akhiri3
1ENT Department, Avicenna Military Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco. y.darouassi@yahoo.fr.
Background:
With the advent of biotherapies, endotyping of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is becoming more and more important to optimize therapeutic management. While the majority of CRSwNPs in the United States, Europe, and Japan exhibit type 2 eosinophil-dominant inflammation response, other parts of Asia display mixed patterns including neutrophil-dominant inflammation. Until now, no study has focused on the proportion of inflammation patterns in Morocco or anywhere on the African continent. We aim to fill this gap by studying tissue inflammatory response in our operated patients.
Material And Methods:
After searching the database of the pathology department, we retrieved from the archives the stained pathology slides of all our patients who underwent surgery for CRSwNP over 5 years from 2017 to 2021. We counted then the number of eosinophils in the lamina propria at high-power magnification to determine the predominant inflammatory pattern.
Results:
A total of 35 reports were collected. We found that eosinophilic inflammation was predominant, accounting for 97% of the cases.
Conclusions:
The CRSwNP endotype in our region would mainly be type 2. However, our results must be confirmed by multicenter studies involving a large number of patients.
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