Results
adenoid hypertrophy, obstruction of the rhinopharynx, inferior turbinate hypertrophy, XXX
ADENOID HYPERTROPHY, ALLERGIC RHINITIS
Eighty patients from the General Otorhinolaryngology outpatient clinic of XXX were screened. Among them, 29 were not included in the analysis (Flowchart representing the selection criteria applied to the study patients.The demographic and clinical characteristics of the included patients are described in Clinical and demographics characteristics.The intra-rater correlation coefficient was calculated based on T1 and T2 scores with Pearson's ratio. The 4 evaluators showed good individual correlation Scatter diagrams representing intra-rater correlation at T1 and T2.Inter-rater reliability was calculated using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) with an ICC result of 0.768 (95% IC 0.725‒0.875).For each evaluator, the average of the results between T1 and T2 was calculated and compared to the findings of the Software Pro Image J, through Pearson's correlation. All showed correlation Scatter diagram comparing the estimated percentage of obstruction of the rhinopharynx by the adenoid, established by the average of the evaluators at T1 and T2, compared to the estimated percentage of obstruction established by the Software Pro Image J (Objective).Of the 51 participants, 22 patients had a low impact on the quality of life assessed by the OSA-18, 15 had a moderate impact and 14 had a high impact. The final OSA-18 score was correlated to the average of the results of adenoid hypertrophy between T1 and T2 of the four evaluators using Pearson's correlation (Correlated to the average of the results of adenoid hypertrophy between T1 and T2 of the four evaluators using Pearson's correlation.Moreovere, when evaluated the degree of obstruction of the rhynopharynx by the OSA-18 categories, no significant difference was observed between the three categories (Distribution of the degree of obstruction of the rhinopharynx, given by the average of the evaluators, with the three categories of quality of life, determined by the OSA-18 questionnaire.Allergic rhinitis, inferior turbinate hypertrophy, age, current nasal treatment, and BMI were associated with OSA-18, with 