rhinosinusitis
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Acute rhinosinusitis is an inflammation of the nasal and paranasal sinuses and accounts for 80% to 90% of upper respiratory tract infections in children.
- Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous disease defined by epithelial inflammation.
- Despite the recent achievements in diagnostics and pharmacotherapy of acute rhinosinusitis in the children, the problem of management of this pathology, thus far remains a serious challenge for practical medicine.
- Rhinovirus (RV), a ssRNA virus of the picornavirus family, is a major cause of the common cold as well as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations.
- A lethal respiratory outbreak among wild chimpanzees in Uganda occurred in 2013 for which molecular and epidemiologic analyses implicate human rhinovirus C as the cause.