Abstract
Allergic rhinitis has increased in prevalence in recent years. There are a variety of curative treatment is difficult QOL is the goal of improving treatments, although curative treatment is difficult; improvement of the QOL is the goal.
While sneezing and watery nasal discharge can be treated, nasal congestion often the most hardship in the treatment is nasal congestion appears to be the symptom most difficult to treat.
In patients with allergic rhinitis with almost no curvature of the nasal septum or sinusitis, the Board of Outpatient Day-Surgical techniques offers high-frequency submucosal electrocoagulation of the inferior turbinate on both sides. The postoperative course in 15 patients was observed for at least 12 months (range, 12 months to 2 years 2 months; average, 1 year 4 months). The patients consisted of 10 men and 5 women with an average age of 45.3 years (range, 24 to 71 years). There were 10 cases of allergic rhinitis (four with year-round symptoms perennial allergic rhinitis, one with seasonal rhinitis, and five with a mixture of both), and five cases of vasomotor rhinitis.
Medical treatment consisted of bipolar radiofrequency thermotherapy (Cellon ENT), with the patients being followed up for at least 1 year. Evaluation of symptoms was performed using the Japan Standard Rhinitis QOL questionnaire (JRQLQ No1). In regard to objective evaluation, the swollen inferior turbinate mucosa was evaluated by endoscopy.
Improvement in nasal congestion was more marked than that of sneezing or nasal discharge. (P<0.002)
Objective findings confirm the significant difference in the findings in the nose evaluation confirmed significant improvement in the degree of swelling of the inferior turbinate.
