Orbital Complications of Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Two Years’ Experience in a Tertiary Referral Hospital

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To investigate the different clinical manifestations in Egyptian patients with orbital complications of rhinosinusitis (RS) according to the pathology within the paranasal sinuses.

Methods

The medical records of patients presented with chronic RS between August 2018 and December 2020 were retrospectively reviewed.

Results

This study included 64 patients: 28 patients with subperiosteal abscess (SPA), 10 with allergic fungal RS, 6 with isolated fungal RS, 6 with invasive fungal RS, and 14 with mucocele. The most common manifestation was proptosis, limitation of ocular motility, periorbital swelling, and pain. A relative afferent pupillary defect was present in all cases of invasive fungal sinusitis. Surgical interventions were performed in 63 out of 64 cases. All the ophthalmological manifestations were reversible except for patients with invasive fungal rhinosinusitis.

Conclusion

Orbital complications of RS may require early surgical intervention with multidisciplinary counseling between ophthalmologists, otorhinolaryngologists, radiologists, and neurologists.

KEYWORDS:

• Allergic fungal sinusitis
• chronic rhinosinusitis
• invasive fungal sinusitis
• isolated fungal sinsuitis
• orbital complications
• subperiosteal abscess

Acknowledgments

Thanks for the support of Tanta University hospitals and for allowing me to collect patients’ data and finish this research. Also, I want to thank Charlesworth Author service for helping me in the final editing of the manuscript.

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Funding

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