Socio-Demographic and Clinical Profile of Patients Suffering from Sinonasal Polyposis Attending Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Present study aimed to evaluate the socio-demographic and clinical profile of patients suffering from Sinonasal Polyposis attending routine ENT OPD in Dr. RPGMC Tanda. Material and Methods: The present study was done as a hospital based cross sectional study in the department of ENT & Head and Neck Surgery, in Dr. RPGMC Kangra at Tanda. It was done in 30 patients of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis from June 2018 to June 2019 who met the inclusion criteria. Data regarding Socio-demographic & Clinical characteristics was retrieved. Results: There were a total of 30 patients out of which there were 16 males and 14 females. The mean age observed of patients was 42.47±13.68. The most common presenting complaints were nasal obstruction (100%) followed by rhinorrhoea (70%) and excessive sneezing (56.67%). Most of the patients 70% (n = 21) had symptoms for more than 12 months followed by 20% patients (n = 6) with symptoms for duration less than 6 months. In the study both anti histamine and intra nasal steroids use was in 18 patients while only anti histamine and intra nasal steroids use was in 8 and 2 patients respectively. Maximum of patients (n = 18) enrolled had involvement of all sinuses (60%). The most common single sinus involved was maxillary sinus in 10 (33.3%) cases and maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were involved in 2 (6.6%) patients. Conclusion: Most of the patients suffering from Sinonasal Polyposis were males, presenting with complaints of patients were nasal obstruction, rhinorrhoea and excessive sneezing, had symptoms for more than 12 months, had premedication history of anti-histamine and intra nasal steroids use and had involvement of was maxillary sinus