Pressures generated during nose blowing in patients with nasal complaints and normal test subjects
Volume: 41 - Issue: 3
First page: 152 - Last page: 158
P. Clement - H. Chovanova
DOI: 10.4193/Rhin
The authors compared nasal resistance and pressures generated during breathing and nose
blowing in patients with chronic sinusitis, septal deviations and a control group consisting of
normal test subjects.
The chronic sinusitis group generated pressures during nose blowing that were significantly
higher (898 daPa for the left side and 913 daPa for the right side) than in the other two
groups. The decongestion didn’t change the generated pressures very much. Pressures generated
during nose blowing with both nostrils closed are much higher than pressures generated
during nose blowing with one nostril open. These very high pressures could have an important
role in the pathophysiology of chronic sinusitis.
Rhinology 41-3: 152-158, 2003
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