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Nocturnal oxymetry in patients with total nasal packing
P Rombaux1, G Liistro, M Hamoir
1Department of Otolaryngology & Neck Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica
|November 12, 1998
Abstract:
Nocturnal oxymetry was recorded in ten otherwise healthy patients undergoing different types of nasal surgery with total nasal packing. Postoperative nocturnal oxymetry was worse than preoperative one in seven patients and judged as abnormal in four. These results indicate that in otherwise healthy subjects, nasal surgery and total nasal packing induce immediate significant changes in nocturnal breathing.