Journal Reviews

Can obstructive snoring affect the snorer’s ears as well?

1 May 2018 | | Eustachian tube dysfunction, Obstructive sleep apnea, anterior rhinomanometry, mucociliary transport time

Patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) often show severe nasal obstruction, chronic sinusitis and/or a deficit of nasal mucociliary clearance with nasopharyngeal stagnation of secretions possibly predisposing to eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD). This clinical prospective study investigates ETD, nasal resistance...

Objective versus subjective – again!

1 September 2014 | | inferior turbinate hypertrophy, nasal objective evaluation, nasal obstruction, nonallergic rhinitis, radiofrequency ablation, rhinomanometry, turbinate surgery, visual analogue scale

The use of objective measurements of nasal airflow has a long history; however, its clinical application remains, at most, patchy. The main reason for that has been the lack of convincing studies showing a good correlation between the findings of,...