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Rinossinusite crônica sem pólipos nasais

Last reviewed: 13 Feb 2025
Last updated: 04 Jun 2024

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
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Other diagnostic factors

  • fadiga
  • tosse
  • hiposmia/anosmia
  • febre
  • halitose
  • dor de dente
  • dor de ouvido/pressão
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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
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • rinoscopia anterior
  • endoscopia nasal
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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
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

rinossinusite crônica

ONGOING

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.

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