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 (< 12 months), middle-term (12-60 months), and long-term (> 60 months). Disease severity was

SUBMITTER: Alt JA 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature