Postoperative Olfaction in Chronic Sinusitis: Smokers versus Nonsmokers
| Autor: | Shunkichi Baba, Motoyuki Hashiba, Shingo Murakami, Shoji Mitsuya, Hiroko Kondo, Kazuko Sugiyama, Toshi Matsuda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Olfaction Neurological disorder Olfaction Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Humans Postoperative Period Sinusitis Stage (cooking) 030223 otorhinolaryngology Adverse effect business.industry Smoking Age Factors Chronic sinusitis Endoscopy General Medicine Functional endoscopic sinus surgery Middle Aged Prognosis medicine.disease Smell Otorhinolaryngology Data Interpretation Statistical 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Anesthesia Chronic Disease Female Tomography X-Ray Computed business Complication |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology. 111:1054-1058 |
| ISSN: | 1943-572X 0003-4894 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000348940211101119 |
| Popis: | In order to study the efficacy of surgical intervention, as well as the influence of cigarette smoking on olfaction in clinical states, we examined olfactory ability by means of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT). We enrolled 37 patients 21 to 60 years of age who underwent surgery for chronic sinusitis. Normosmia was defined as an UPSIT score of 30 or more. Among these patients, 31 had a disturbance in their smelling ability in the preoperative stage, and the improvement rate, defined as a rise in score of 4 or more points after surgery, was 64.5%; 11 were well healed. However, all 7 patients who were more than 40 years old at the time of surgery, and currently smoking cigarettes, had a significant deficit in olfaction in the preoperative stage and even in the postoperative stage. This study demonstrated that cigarette smoking has adverse effects on olfactory ability, especially for older patients. |
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