• Rayan Alfallaj, Sultan Bin Obaid, Hisham Almousa, Dawood Ismail, Saleh Mahjoub, Fatma Alanazy, Surayie Al Dousary, Saud Alromaih, Mohammad Aloulah, Abdulaziz Alrasheed, Ahmad S Alroqi, and Saad Alsaleh.
• From the Department of Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery Department (Alfallaj, Alanazy, Al Dousary, Alromaih, Aloulah, Alrasheed, Alroqi, Alsaleh) College of Medicine; and from the College of Medicine (bin Obaid, Almousa, Ismail, Mahjoub), King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Saudi Med J. 2023 Apr 1; 44 (4): 401405401-405.

ObjectivesTo determine the clinical features of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis at a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.MethodsA cross-sectional study was carried out at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. We enrolled 660 male and female participants with medical records indicating a history of chronic rhinosinusitis between 2021 and 2022. Quantitative and descriptive analyses of age, gender, nationality, presence of polyps, aspirin sensitivity, presence of urticaria, asthma, and allergies were performed.ResultsOf the 660 enrolled patients, 60% (n=396) were male and 40% (n=264) were female. Additionally, 67.7% (447) had nasal polyps, 32% had a history of asthma, 10% had hypersensitivity to aspirin, 1.4% reported a history of urticaria, 9.7% reported allergies to medications, 7.9% reported food allergies, 26% reported multiple allergies, and 1.8% reported environmental allergies.ConclusionOur study revealed the following: Samter's triad was present in 6.9% of participants with chronic rhinosinusitis; the greatest prevalence of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps was observed among those older than 50 years. The prevalence of urticaria was not significantly different among groups; a higher rate of environmental allergies was observed among those with CRSwNP than among those without nasal polyps; and a higher prevalence of aspirin hypersensitivity was observed among those with CRSwNP than among non-polyps group.Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal.

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