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Background: Nasal polyps is a soft masses filled with fluid in nasal mucosa. The incidence is not high, but nasal polyps are related with inflammatory process.
Salma Yuri Khairunnisa +2 more
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Herpes simplex virus type 1 infection facilitates invasion of Staphylococcus aureus into the nasal mucosa and nasal polyp tissue. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of severe chronic airway disease, such as nasal polyps. However the mechanisms underlying the initiation of damage and/or invasion of the nasal mucosa by S.
XiangDong Wang +9 more
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Background: Sino-nasal polyps can be treated medically (with systemic and local steroids) or surgically; but a lot of patients refuse surgical intervention or are contraindicated to use systemic steroids. Intra-polyp steroid injections have recently been
Nehad Hassan Abdelrahman +3 more
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Background: The chemokine receptor, CC-chemokine receptor 3 (CCR3), and its major ligands, eotaxin, RANTES, and MCP-4, are involved in eosinophil chemotaxis. It is thought that CCR3 plays an important role in the recruitment and activation of eosinophils
Hidekazu Saito +4 more
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Sphenochoanal polyp causing obstruction
Nasal polyps are mostly referred to as antrochoanal polyps. Polyp arising from sphenoid sinus as such is a rare entity. Radiological investigations include a CT scan of paranasal sinuses and diagnostic nasal endoscopy will confirm the diagnosis. Once the
Shashikant Anil Pol +3 more
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VISUALIZE: a 24-week, open-label study using nasal endoscopy video to evaluate the efficacy and safety of EDS-FLU 186 μg twice daily in adults with bilateral nasal polyps [PDF]
Background: In prior phase 3, randomized, placebo-controlled trials, fluticasone propionate exhalation delivery system (EDSFLU) over 24 weeks showed significant reduction in total polyp score compared with EDS-placebo.
William C. Yao +3 more
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Clinical profile of nasal polyp in a pediatric patient: An Ayurvedic approach
Nasal polyp is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the nasal cavity and the paranasal sinuses. It is a relatively common disease occurring in 1%–4% of the general population, but it is also seen in the pediatric population.
Aziz Ahmed Arbar, Sweta Verma
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EOSINOPHILS PROFILE AND LUND-MACKAY SCORE OF NASAL POLYPS IN ARIFIN ACHMAD HOSPITAL, RIAU PROVINCE
: Theories suggest that nasal polyps occur as a result of chronic inflammation of the nasal and sinus mucosa. Eosinophils are the main inflammatory cells found in nasal polyp tissue.
Yolazenia Yolazenia +4 more
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Background: Nasal polyps is a common disease but little is known about its` pathogenesis. Our hypothesis was that there are genetic factors involved in the development of this disease. The aim of this study was to examine close relatives of patients with nasal polyps and comparing them with a general population with regard to prevalence of polyps ...
Anton, Bohman +7 more
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