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Zayd Al-Asadi1, Ruifeng Cui2, Dominic Lombardo1
1School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
Key Points:
Quality of life (QoL) in patients with recurrent acute rhinosinusitis (RARS) is understudied. QoL for RARS patients is similar to chronic rhinosinusitis patients, although objective disease severity is lower. QoL of RARS patients is similarly affected during active and inactive infection.
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