This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Rodney P. Lusk, MD; Stephen H. Polmar, MD; Harlan R. Muntz, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1991;117(1):60-63.

Abstract
• The efficacy of endoscopic sinus surgery was evaluated in 11 patients with diverse types of primary immunodeficiency disease and symptoms of chronic sinusitis. The postoperative symptoms and ability to eliminate antibiotics were used as outcome parameters. In two patients, the follow-up time was too short to assess therapeutic effectiveness. Five of the remaining nine patients had total or significant resolution of symptoms. Patients with transient immunodeficiency had the best resolution of symptoms. Eight of the total 11 patients were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin preoperatively, and in five patients, the treatment was continued postoperatively. The ability to terminate -globulin reflects not the success of the surgery, but the transient nature of some of the immunodeficiencies.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1991;117:60-63)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, and St Louis Children's Hospital, Mo (Drs Lusk and Muntz) and Department of Human Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn (Dr Polmar).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 25, 1990.

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Toronto, Ontario, May 18, 1990.

Reprint requests to St Louis Children's Hospital, 400 S Kingshighway, St Louis, MO 63110 (Dr Lusk).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

The Impact of Sinus Computed Tomography on Treatment Decisions for Chronic Sinusitis
Anzai et al.
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2004;130:423-428.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Pulmonary and sinus diseases in primary humoral immunodeficiencies with chronic productive cough
Rusconi et al.
Arch. Dis. Child. 2003;88:1101-1105.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Results of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in Pediatric Patients With Chronic Sinusitis and Asthma
Manning et al.
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1994;120:1142-1145.
ABSTRACT