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. 2024 Nov;31(3):145-150.
doi: 10.18787/jr.2024.00024. Epub 2024 Nov 30.

Outcome of Preoperative Oral Steroids on Patients With Sinonasal Polyposis

Sukriti Nehra  1 , Bikram Choudhury  2 , Amit Goyal  2 , Kapil Soni  2 , Vidhu Sharma  2 , Sarbesh Tiwari  3
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Outcome of Preoperative Oral Steroids on Patients With Sinonasal Polyposis

Sukriti Nehra et al. J Rhinol. 2024 Nov.

Abstract

Background and objectives: This study aimed to evaluate whether preoperative oral prednisolone improves the intraoperative parameters and postoperative outcomes over a 3-month period in patients of sinonasal polyposis who undergo functional endoscopic sinus surgery.

Methods: In a triple-blind, randomized controlled study, 43 patients diagnosed with sinonasal polyposis in the Department of ENT, AIIMS, Jodhpur, were enrolled. After obtaining institutional ethics clearance and registering the clinical trial, randomization was conducted to assign participants into experimental and control groups. Preoperatively, patients were assessed using the clinical severity score (Sino-nasal Outcome Test; SNOT-22), radiological severity score (Lund-Mackay score), and endoscopic severity scores (discharge-inflammation-polyp [DIP] score and Lund-Kennedy score). Intraoperative assessment was done using the Perioperative Sinus Endoscopy (POSE) score, the duration of surgery, intraoperative blood loss, and visual analog scale for visual field during surgery and for the ease of disease removal. Postoperatively, at 3 months all the preoperative parameters were reassessed, and, using independent t-test, comparison was made between the two groups.

Results: Twenty-one patients were included in the experimental group (48%), and 22 in the control group (51%). Although the mean duration of surgery in the experimental group was shorter than in the control group, the difference was not statistically significant. Similarly, although the postoperative SNOT-22 score was lower in the experimental group compared to the control group, there was no statistically significant difference in outcomes between the two groups across any of the parameters assessed.

Conclusion: Although the role of oral steroids has been established in the treatment of sinonasal polyposis, our study did not find any significant difference between the group that received oral steroids prior to surgery and the group that received placebo.

Keywords: CRSwNP; Corticosteroids; Oral steroids; Sinonasal polyposis; Systemic steroids.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Gender distribution between study groups.
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