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Avaliação da qualidade de vida após septoplastia em pacientes com obstrução nasal

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 78; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1808-86942012000300011

1808-8694

Thiago Freire Pinto Bezerra, Michael G. Stewart, Marco Aurélio Fornazieri, Renata Pilan, Fábio de Rezende Pinna, Francini Grecco de Melo Pádua, Richard Louis Voegels,

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Nasal obstruction is a common complaint in the population. When caused by a deviated nasal septum, septoplasty is the procedure of choice for treating these patients. NOSE is a tool for assessing the disease-specific quality of life related to nasal obstruction.To assess the impact of septoplasty on patients with nasal obstruction secondary to deviated nasal septum based on the disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaire.Prospective.Patients undergoing septoplasty with/without turbinectomy after no clinical improvement with medical treatment were assessed by the NOSE questionnaire before and 3 months after surgery. We evaluated the surgical improvement based on total score, the magnitude of the surgery in the disease-specific quality of life and the correlation between the preoperative score and postoperatively improvement.Fourty-six patients were included in the study. There was a statistically significant improvement in the preoperative NOSE score (md = 75, IQR = 26) and after three months (md = 10, IQR = 20) (p < 0.001.T-Wilcoxon). The standardized response mean was 3.07. We found a strong correlation between the preoperative score in the NOSE questionnaire and improvements in the postoperative period (r = -0.789, p < 0.001, Spearman). No difference was found in improvement scores by gender. (p = 0.668, U-Mann-Whitney).Septoplasty resulted in a statistically significant improvement in the disease-specific QOL questionnaire.