The Frequency of Allergic Rhinosinusitis in Patients Referred to Ear, Nose Throat Clinic due to Chronic Rhinosinusitis

Abstract

With respect to importance of chronic rhinosinusitis, especially its allergic type among 150 referent patients to ENT (Ear & Nose & Throat) clinic with taking the history of disease and accurate clinical examination and recording the results of total serum (IgE) and eosinophil of peripheral blood, the patients with allergic and non- allergic cases were identified and the cases in which it was not possible to diagnose accurately by these methods they were reported under title of suspicious to allergic symptom where among these patients, about 45% of them were diagnosed with allergic case. And at the same time, the relationship was explored and determined among asthma, conjunctivitis, and eczema with allergic type of disease in which these types of diseases were seen clearly further in allergic rhinosinusitis than in its non- allergic type.