Active clinical trials for "Sinusitis"

Oral corticosteroids are commonly utilized for the management of chronic rhinosinusitis with and without nasal polyps (CRSwNP and CRSsNP, respectively). Although strong evidence supports the benefit of routine and perioperative oral corticosteroids for CRSwNP, there is limited evidence to support their utility for CRSsNP. The investigators intend to perform a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial to investigate the impact of steroids used within 2 weeks prior to surgery for CRSsNP. Patients with CRSsNP that present to the investigators office will be included if they have failed maximal medical management and have elected to undergo endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) after July 1, 2014. The investigators hypothesis is that oral corticosteroids given 2 weeks prior to surgery will improve subjective and objective outcome measures.

This study is intended to assess the impact of a 90 day course of high volume budesonide irrigations for patients who have failed other medical therapy and assessing the impact of the budesonide irrigations on the need for sinus surgery.

Antibody deficiencies and complement deficiencies are the most frequent Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) in adults, and are associated with greatly increased susceptibility to recurrent and/or severe bacterial infections - especially upper and lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis. The literature data suggest that PIDs are under-diagnosed in adults. The current European and US guidelines advocate screening adults for PIDs if they present recurrent benign especially upper and lower respiratory tract infections, or if they have experienced at least two severe bacterial infections and/or have a recurrent need for intravenous antibiotics. The objective of the demonstrate the interest of PIDs screening in adult patients who present such recurrent infections and/or after the first severe bacterial infection, especially when the patients do not present with known, etiologically relevant comorbidities.

This observational study aims to learn more about complicated infections treated by otorhinolaryngologists. The main questions to answer are: What is the management of complicated sinonasal infections in Ljubljana, Slovenia, What is the management of complicated ear and temporal bone infections in Ljubljana, Slovenia, What is the management of complicated neck soft tissue infections in Ljubljana, Slovenia, What is the management of complicated laryngeal infections in Ljubljana, Slovenia Participants will receive standard treatment according to the established evidence-based clinical practice.

This is a feasibility study is to assess the performance, safety and initial signals of efficacy of the drug-eluting Propel Nova Sinus Implant when used in chronic sinusitis patients undergoing sinus surgery of peripheral sinus ostia.

This single-center, randomized, double-blind and controlled study aims to examine the effect of a fermented dairy product containing the probiotic Lactobacillus casei DN-114 001 (Actimel® = tested product) on the incidence of respiratory and gastro-intestinal common infectious diseases (cumulated number of infections during the intervention period: primary criteria), and on immune functions in healthy shift workers. Volunteers received either 200g/day of tested product (N=500) or control product (N=500) for 3-months, followed by a 1-month follow-up.

This study allows continued access to the Sinexus Intranasal Splint while a marketing application is being prepared. This study will generate additional performance, reimbursement and safety data for the steroid-eluting Sinexus Intranasal Splint when used following Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) in patients with chronic sinusitis (CS).

The purpose of this study is to assess the use of IV acetaminophen (Ofirmev) as a and safe and efficacious agent in reducing post-operative pain; we hypothesize that its use will reduce post-operative pain when compared to a control group using the visual analogue score (VAS) analog pain scoring system.

The purpose of our study is to assess the effect of topical vasoconstriction (cocaine 4% versus adrenaline 1/1000) on the surgical field during endoscopic sinus surgery.

To measure the level of drug in nasal tissue and blood after taking a single 2g dose or 500mg tablets for up to 3 days.