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Does Delaying Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Adversely Impact Quality-of-Life Outcomes?


ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:There is little consensus regarding the prognostic value of symptom duration in predicting clinical disease severity or quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Our objectives were to: 1) determine if patients with longer symptom duration have worse preoperative disease severity and/or QOL, and 2) determine if delayed surgical intervention influences outcomes of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). METHODS:Patients diagnosed with CRS were prospectively enrolled into a multicenter cohort study and observed 14.7 (standard deviaton {SD}?±?4.8) months on average following primary ESS. Preoperative symptom duration was stratified into short-term (?60 months). Disease severity was assessed using endoscopy and computed tomography. Disease-specific QOL was measured with the 22-item Sinonasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) and Rhinosinusitis Disability Index. Adjusted bivariate and multivariate associations between symptom duration, disease severity, and QOL scores were evaluated. RESULTS:One hundred and thirteen patients met inclusion criteria with 35 patients lost to postoperative follow-up. No significant differences in preoperative disease severity or QOL scores were reported between symptom duration subgroups. Participants in the long-term symptom subgroup reported significantly greater mean postoperative improvement on SNOT-22 total scores (n?=?28; -36.3[±?22.2]) compared to both short-term (n?=?27; -23.4[SD?±?11.3]; P?=?0.039) and middle-term (n?=?23; -23.5[SD?±?20.1]; P?=?0.050) subgroups. Postoperative QOL improvements in the long-term symptom subgroup remained significantly greater (P???0.036) after multivariate adjustment. CONCLUSIONS:Symptom duration was not associated with mean preoperative disease severity or QOL. Patients with long-term symptom duration reported the greatest mean postoperative QOL improvement, suggesting that delayed surgical intervention may not reduce QOL improvements following ESS. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE:2c Laryngoscope, 129:303-311, 2019.

SUBMITTER: Alt JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6344235 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Does Delaying Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Adversely Impact Quality-of-Life Outcomes?

Alt Jeremiah A JA   Orlandi Richard R RR   Mace Jess C JC   Soler Zachary M ZM   Smith Timothy L TL  

The Laryngoscope 20180912 2


<h4>Objectives</h4>There is little consensus regarding the prognostic value of symptom duration in predicting clinical disease severity or quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). Our objectives were to: 1) determine if patients with longer symptom duration have worse preoperative disease severity and/or QOL, and 2) determine if delayed surgical intervention influences outcomes of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS).<h4>Methods</h4>Patients diagnosed with CRS were  ...[more]

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