Rinossinusites e doenças correlatas : ocorrência dos achados clínicos e dos métodos diagnósticos complementares
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2007-12-27
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Helmer, Christiane Saliba
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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Rhinosinusal illnesses are associated with a great morbidity, high costs for the patients and high tax of labor and school absenteeism. Even though these illnesses are well known, there is few descriptive studies about the clinical manifestations, the optimization of the diagnostic criteria and the distribution of comorbidity according to the etiopathogenic types (structural, functional, allergic and infectious) at a local level. Objective: to carry through a comparative description of the clinical, mucociliary clearance, citopathologic, endoscopic and imaginologic findings of the rhinosinusal illness at local doctors office. Patients and methods: 232 of a universe of 2549 patients taken care at two otorrhinolaringologic clinics at Vitória citty, Espírito Santo State, Brazil, from January, 3rd of 2005 to May, 11th of 2006. Of 232, 212 were patients with some rhinosinusal complaints and 20 citizens without rhinosinusal complaints (10 smokers and 10 nonsmokers) were used as control group. The absolute and relative frequency of clinical and laboratory findings were compared between the ethiopathogenic types of rhinosinusal illness. Results: structural abnormalities was present in 10 (4,7%), functional abnormalities in 11 (5,2%), allergy in 28 (13,2%) and infection in 13 (6,1%); in 136 (64,1%) there is more than one of these conditions. Among the 612 findings analised, 19% shows direct increment of frequency higher than 20% between the rhinosinusal types: rhinosinusitis, allergic rhinitis, structural and functional abnormalities. Conclusion: these results show that comorbidity is high and that there is great overlapping of findings between the various types of rhinosinusal illness. To discriminate between them is necessary to take account of concommitant contribution of the clinical history, cytopathology, mucociliary clearance, endoscopic and imaginologic findings.
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Rhinosinusitis, allergy , Comorbidity , Quality of life , Rinossinusites , Comorbidade
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HELMER, Christiane Saliba. Rinossinusites e doenças correlatas: ocorrência dos achados clínicos e dos métodos diagnósticos complementares. 2007. 173 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Doenças Infecciosas) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, 2007.