Peculiarities of the acute sinusitis course in patients with chronic vasopathy

Abstract

This article deals with a modern view of the pathophysiology and the course of acute inflammatory diseases of the paranasal sinuses, complicated by the presence in a patient of chronic rhinitis of vasomotor etiology. The article covers various clinical situations and factors predisposing to chronic angiopathy, special emphasis is placed on differential diagnostics of chronic vasomotor and allergic rhinitis, as well as on the need for adequate and science-based selection of pathogenetic therapy. The article provides a detailed clinical picture of chronic rhinitis, including chronic vasomotor rhinitis with the indication of characteristic symptoms. We also offer the algorithm for treatment of acute inflammatory diseases of paranasal sinuses, complications of chronic vasomotor rhinitis tested in our clinic. During 2016 under our supervision there were 42 patients with chronic vasomotor rhinitis and acute sinusitis. The patients were divided into 2 groups. Each patient received as etiotropic therapy antibiotics of the protected penicillins group, as a basic system component of pathogenetic therapy – a blocker of histamine receptors, a gentle diuretic herbal tea and Afobazol. Additionally, patients received local therapy: in the experimental group – Otrivin® Complex spray; in the control group – a hypertonic solution of sea water in the form of a spray.