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ArticleCureus2023

The Association Between Eosinophils and the Disease Process in Destructive Non-invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis.

Amal A Almaghrabi, Khaled I Alnoury, Ahmed K Alkhulaifi

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amal A AlmaghrabiOtolaryngology, Security Forces Hospital Program, Makkah, SAU.
Khaled I AlnouryOtolaryngology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, SAU.
Ahmed K AlkhulaifiFaculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, SAU.
King Abdulaziz University · SASecurity Forces Hospital · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study aims to investigate the significance of eosinophils in the progression and prognosis of destructive non-invasive fungal rhinosinusitis.

methodsThis was a retrospective study of 126 patients who were operated on for a nasal sinus disease between 2010 and 2017; of these, 56 met the inclusion criteria

resultsA significant difference was found between pre-and post-operative blood eosinophils levels in Group 1 (p= 0.01) after adjusting for confounders such as age, sex, fungal culture, pre and post IgE, and histopathology of the disease. However, no significant difference was found in Group 2 (p= 0.663) even after adjusting for age, sex, fungal culture, pre and post IgE, and histopathology of the disease. We did not find any significant interaction (P>0.05) between pre- and post-operative levels of eosinophils with age, sex, and fungal culture among Group 1 and Group 2.

conclusionsThere is a statistically significant difference in blood eosinophils between pre- and post-operative levels in studied cases of destructive non-invasive fungal polyposis, a difference is not seen in nasal sinus polyp cases other than destructive non-invasive fungal polyposis types. High pre-operative eosinophils levels in destructive non-invasive fungal sinus polyposis types demonstrated the importance of eosinophils in the pathogenesis of this disease. The blood eosinophils can therefore be considered an important factor in the disease process and an indicator of the disease prognosis and destructive behavior.

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blood levelschronic rhinosinusitisdestructive fungal nasal polyposiseosinophilsprognosis

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