Article Type
Article
Abstract
Background: Olfaction plays important roles in taste, warning of danger, and the triggering of emotions and memories. As per estimates available, 61% to 69% of Patients with Chronic rhinosinusitis have a reduced sense of smell. The aim of this work: is to evaluate whether functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) significantly altered olfactory function, as measured by tests of odor identification, detection and discrimination like Sniffin Sticks test.
Methods: This study included 40 patients indicated for functional endoscopic sinus surgery due to chronic rhinosinusitis resistant to medical treatment with hyposmia or anosmia. Olfactory function evaluation was done pre and postoperative through subjective and objective tests (by questionnaire and Sniffin Sticks Test).
Result: Through 40 patients with male/female (24/16). The olfaction in 37 patients was improved (37/40) and remained the same as pre-operative in 3 patients (i.e thirteen patients were improved to complete ability of smell, seventeen patients were improved to most of time good sense of smell, four patients were improved to sometime no smell, three patients were improved from no smell to most of time no smell).
Conclusion: FESS for the chronic rhinosinusitis cases resistant to medical treatment with doing good postoperative care has good impact on the outcome results of olfaction and its improvement.
Keywords: Olfaction, FESS, chronic rhino-sinusitis, sniffin test.
Recommended Citation
Abou Zaid E, Azooz K, El Batawi AM,
et al.
Olfactory function in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis before and after functional endoscopic sinus surgery.
Pan Arab J. Rhinol.
2019;
9 : -.
Available at:
https://pajr.researchcommons.org/journal/vol9/iss1/5
