RT Journal Article
T1 Linking Chronic Otitis Media and Nasal Obstruction: A CFD Approach.
A1 Burgos, Manuel A
A1 Pardo, Alejandro
A1 Rodríguez, Rafael
A1 Rodríguez-Balbuena, Beatriz
A1 Castro, David
A1 Piqueras, Francisco
A1 Esteban, Francisco
K1 CFD tools
K1 Chronic otitis media
K1 computational fluid dynamics
K1 deviated nasal septum
K1 dimensionless estimators
K1 middle ear cholesteatoma
K1 nasal obstruction
AB To investigate a possible relationship between altered nasal flow and chronic otitis media (COM) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Retrospective case series. Retrospective cohort sample of CT scans from patients with COM and controls without COM to compare the results of various nasal airflow parameters determined by CFD between a group of patients with COM (N = 60) and a control group of subjects without any evidence of ear disease (N = 81). The CT were subjected to various procedures to carry out CFD studies, determining the resistance to nasal flow, the proportion of flow through the right and left nasal cavity, and two nondimensional estimators. The results of CFD studies between patients with COM and controls were compared. Whereas only 12.3% of the controls had CFD alteration (10 out of 81), 43.3% of the patients suffering COM displayed alterations of our nondimensional parameters R-ϕ (26 out of 60). According to our results, the incidence of alterations in nasal airflow by studying with CFD is significantly higher in patients with COM than in controls. To our knowledge, this is the first article linking nasal cavity and COM using a CFD approach. Our results support the hypothesis that nasal flow alterations could be implicated in the etiopathogenesis of the COM. 4 Laryngoscope, 132:1224-1230, 2022.
YR 2021
FD 2021-09-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/22273
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/22273
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 8, 2025