Summary
Definition
History and exam
Key diagnostic factors
- presença de fatores de risco
- pressão/dor facial
- obstrução nasal
- secreção nasal/gotejamento pós-nasal
- purulência
- cefaleia
Other diagnostic factors
- fadiga
- tosse
- hiposmia/anosmia
- febre
- halitose
- dor de dente
- dor de ouvido/pressão
Risk factors
- disfunção ciliar
- sensibilidade à aspirina
- rinite alérgica
- hiper-reatividade das vias aéreas/asma
- cirurgia prévia dos seios paranasais
- imunodeficiência
- desvios graves do septo
- deformidade da concha bolhosa
- cornetos médios curvados paradoxalmente
- corpos estranhos
- anormalidades craniofaciais
- tabagismo
- poluição ambiental
- sarcoidose
- granulomatose com poliangiite
- história de asma
Diagnostic investigations
1st investigations to order
- rinoscopia anterior
- endoscopia nasal
Investigations to consider
- tomografia computadorizada (TC) dos seios da face
- ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) dos seios nasais
- culturas do seio nasal/sinusais
- teste de alergia
Treatment algorithm
rinossinusite crônica
continuação de sintomas apesar da terapia medicamentosa
Contributors
Authors
Raj Sindwani, MD, FACS, FRCS
Section Head of Rhinology, Sinus, and Skull Base Surgery
Head and Neck Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland
OH
Disclosures
RS is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. RS is a consultant for Optinose, Stryker, and 3D Matrix.
Christopher Roxbury, MD
Associate Professor
Rhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Section of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences
Chicago
IL
Disclosures
CR declares that he has no competing interests.
Acknowledgements
Dr R Sindwani and Dr C Roxbury would like to acknowledge Dr J Antisdel, a previous contributor to this topic.
Peer reviewers
Ryland P. Byrd, Jr, MD
Professor
James H. Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City
TN
Disclosures
RPB declares that he has no competing interests.
Thomas Sanford, MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
St Louis University School of Medicine
St Louis
MO
Disclosures
TS declares that he has no competing interests.
Ozgur Yigit, MD
Chief
ENT Department
Istanbul Training and Research Hospital
Istanbul
Turkey
Disclosures
OY declares that he has no competing interests.
Christos Georgalas, MD, PhD, DLO, FRCS (ORL-HNS)
Assistant Professor/Consultant
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Disclosures
CG declares that he has no competing interests.
Differentials
- Rinossinusite aguda
- Rinite alérgica
- Rinossinusite fúngica alérgica
More DifferentialsGuidelines
- International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: rhinosinusitis
- European Position Paper on rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps 2020
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