Inferior Turbinate Surgery in Rhinoseptoplasty: a Randomized Clinical Trial With Quality of Life Outcomes

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nasal Obstruction; Quality of Life; Rhinoplasty; Rhinoseptoplasty; Turbinate Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: No iInferior turbinate surgery; Procedure: Inferior turbinate surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01457638

1004-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether inferior turbinate surgery during rhinoseptoplasty is effective in improving quality of life and acoustic rhinometry outcomes.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Older than 15 years old;
• Nasal obstruction and nasal aesthetics complaints;

Exclusion criteria

• Previous septoplasty, turbinates intervention and/or rhinoplasty;
• Association of other surgical procedures in the same surgical time, as functional endoscopic sinus surgery, blepharoplasty, mentoplasty or otoplasty;
• Inferior turbinate hypertrophy as the isolated cause of nasal obstruction (no septum deviation or internal valve collapse)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

No inferior turbinate surgery

Sham Comparator group

Description:

During rhinoseptoplasty there is no intervention on inferior turbinates

Treatment:

Procedure: No iInferior turbinate surgery

Inferior Turbinate surgery

Experimental group

Description:

During rhinoseptoplasty, inferior turbinate submucosal cauterization is performed.

Treatment:

Procedure: Inferior turbinate surgery