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Nasal airway resistance and symptoms after functional septoplasty: comparison of findings at 9 months and 9 years
Article first published online: 2 AUG 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.1989.tb00366.x
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JESSEN, M., IVARSSON, A. and MALM, L. (1989), Nasal airway resistance and symptoms after functional septoplasty: comparison of findings at 9 months and 9 years. Clinical Otolaryngology & Allied Sciences, 14: 231–234. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.1989.tb00366.x
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- Issue published online: 19 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 2 AUG 2007
- Accepted for publicatoin 13 April 1988
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Keywords:
- nasal obstruction;
- nine-year follow-up;
- rhinomanometry;
- septoplasty
Thirty-five patients undergoing a functional septoplasty for nasal obstruction and pathologically high nasal airway resistance were followed up twice, at about 9 months and 9 years postoperatively. The resistance of the preoperatively narrower cavity was reduced at both check-ups, while that of the preoperatively wider cavity, and of the total nose, was lower at the late follow-up than at the early one. Seventy-four per cent of the patients were satisfied with the operation at the first follow-up, and 69% at the later one. Preoperatively, all the patients suffered from nasal obstruction. Postoperatively, at the 9-month follow-up 51% were subjectively free from obstruction, but only 26% were symptom-free at 9 years. Obviously, then, both objective and subjective changes may occur later than 9 months after functional septoplasty.