Title

Assessment of symptomatically deviated nasal septum among Indian patients

Authors

Harshvardhan Anil Patil^1,* & Abhay D. Havle^2,*

Affiliation

¹Department of ENT, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Karad - 415110, Maharashtra, India; ²Department of otorhinolaryngology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Karad - 415 539, Maharashtra, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Harshvardhan Anil Patil - E - mail: harshvardhan1010@gmail.com
Abhay D. Havle - E - mail: abhayhavle@yahoo.co.in

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 1, 2024; Revised October 31, 2024; Accepted October 31, 2024, Published October 31, 2024

Abstract

Nasal Inspiratory Peak Flow (NIPF) is an easy, reliable, inexpensive, and easy-to-measure objective test with a good specificity to measure changes in nasal obstruction. However, sinonasal outcome test-22 (SNOT-22) is questionnaire based for general health and rhinologic issues. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the link between NIPF and SNOT-22 scores before and after surgery. Hence, 34 patients underwent clinical and radiological examination followed by questionnaire study before and after the surgery. We found that, no significant change between NIPF and SNOT-22 scores for both age and gender aspect. Thus, pre-operative SNOT-22 evaluation can be made a routine exercise as it is equally reliable and highly cost effective as compared to NIPF.

Keywords

Nasal inspiratory peak flow (NIPF), sinonasal outcome test-22 (SNOT-22), pre- operative, specificity, questionnaire, rhinologic issues, general health, clinical, radiological examination.

Citation

Patil et al. Bioinformation 20(10): 1374-1377 (2024)

Edited by

Neelam Goyal & Shruti Dabi

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.