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Quality of Life Study About the Role of Turbinectomy in Rhinoseptoplasty

Brazil50 participantsStarted 2014-03

Plain-language summary

Research Question: Performing partial turbinectomy associated with rhinoseptoplasty is responsible for an increase in quality of life related to nasal obstruction when compared to no intervention in rhinoseptoplasty inferior turbinate? * Population: patients eligible for functional rhinoseptoplasty and / or aesthetic * Intervention: surgery, turbinectomy of inferior turbinates * Comparison: the absence of intervention in inferior turbinates * Primary endpoint: Quality of life related to nasal obstruction

Who can participate

Age range6 Months – 90 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Eligible patients to rhinoseptoplasty * Patients who agreed to participate Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of symptoms of nasal obstruction in the absence of septal deviation, poor support of the nasal tip or clamping of the nasal valve; * Presence of hypertrophic and obstructive inferior turbinates; * Presence of sinonasal tumors; * Patients undergoing treatment of other concomitant rhinoplasty entities such as inflammatory sinus pathology, adenoid hypertrophy, septal perforation, otoplasty and blepharoplasty.

What they're measuring

Quality of life related to nasal obstruction

Timeframe: 3 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02231216

SponsorHospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2015-03

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