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. 2021 Mar;11(3):213-739.
doi: 10.1002/alr.22741.

International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: rhinosinusitis 2021

Richard R Orlandi  1 Todd T Kingdom  2 Timothy L Smith  3 Benjamin Bleier  4 Adam DeConde  5 Amber U Luong  6 David M Poetker  7 Zachary Soler  8 Kevin C Welch  9 Sarah K Wise  10 Nithin Adappa  11 Jeremiah A Alt  1 Wilma Terezinha Anselmo-Lima  12 Claus Bachert  13   14   15 Fuad M Baroody  16 Pete S Batra  17 Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen  18 Daniel Beswick  19 Neil Bhattacharyya  4 Rakesh K Chandra  20 Eugene H Chang  21 Alexander Chiu  22 Naweed Chowdhury  23 Martin J Citardi  6 Noam A Cohen  11 David B Conley  24 John DelGaudio  10 Martin Desrosiers  25 Richard Douglas  26 Jean Anderson Eloy  27 Wytske J Fokkens  28 Stacey T Gray  4 David A Gudis  29 Daniel L Hamilos  30 Joseph K Han  31 Richard Harvey  32 Peter Hellings  33 Eric H Holbrook  4 Claire Hopkins  34 Peter Hwang  35 Amin R Javer  36 Rong-San Jiang  37 David Kennedy  11 Robert Kern  24 Tanya Laidlaw  4 Devyani Lal  38 Andrew Lane  39 Heung-Man Lee  40 Jivianne T Lee  19 Joshua M Levy  10 Sandra Y Lin  39 Valerie Lund  41 Kevin C McMains  42 Ralph Metson  4 Joaquim Mullol  43 Robert Naclerio  39 Gretchen Oakley  1 Nobuyoshi Otori  44 James N Palmer  11 Sanjay R Parikh  45 Desiderio Passali  46 Zara Patel  35 Anju Peters  24 Carl Philpott  47 Alkis J Psaltis  48 Vijay R Ramakrishnan  2 Murugappan Ramanathan Jr  39 Hwan-Jung Roh  49 Luke Rudmik  50 Raymond Sacks  51 Rodney J Schlosser  8 Ahmad R Sedaghat  52 Brent A Senior  53 Raj Sindwani  54 Kristine Smith  55 Kornkiat Snidvongs  56 Michael Stewart  57 Jeffrey D Suh  19 Bruce K Tan  24 Justin H Turner  23 Cornelis M van Drunen  58 Richard Voegels  59 De Yun Wang  60 Bradford A Woodworth  61 Peter-John Wormald  48 Erin D Wright  62 Carol Yan  63 Luo Zhang  64 Bing Zhou  64
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Review

International consensus statement on allergy and rhinology: rhinosinusitis 2021

Richard R Orlandi et al. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2021 Mar.

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  • Corrigendum.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2022 Jul;12(7):974. doi: 10.1002/alr.22987. Epub 2022 Mar 11. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2022. PMID: 35274477 No abstract available.

Abstract

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Executive summary: BACKGROUND: The 5 years since the publication of the first International Consensus Statement on Allergy and Rhinology: Rhinosinusitis (ICAR-RS) has witnessed foundational progress in our understanding and treatment of rhinologic disease. These advances are reflected within the more than 40 new topics covered within the ICAR-RS-2021 as well as updates to the original 140 topics. This executive summary consolidates the evidence-based findings of the document.

Methods: ICAR-RS presents over 180 topics in the forms of evidence-based reviews with recommendations (EBRRs), evidence-based reviews, and literature reviews. The highest grade structured recommendations of the EBRR sections are summarized in this executive summary.

Results: ICAR-RS-2021 covers 22 topics regarding the medical management of RS, which are grade A/B and are presented in the executive summary. Additionally, 4 topics regarding the surgical management of RS are grade A/B and are presented in the executive summary. Finally, a comprehensive evidence-based management algorithm is provided.

Conclusion: This ICAR-RS-2021 executive summary provides a compilation of the evidence-based recommendations for medical and surgical treatment of the most common forms of RS.

Keywords: acute rhinosinusitis; chronic rhinosinusitis; endoscopic sinus surgery; evidence-based medicine; recurrent acute rhinosinusitis; rhinosinusitis; systematic review.

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