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Cytokine profile in paranasal effusions in patients with chronic sinusitis using the YAMIK sinus catheter with and without betamethasone

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Recently, the YAMIK sinus catheter (YAMIK) has been reported to be a useful therapeutic device in the treatment of sinusitis. The present study was conducted to compare its delivery of either a normal saline (NS) or a betamethasone solution (0.4 mg/ml) into the paranasal sinuses of 25 patients (39 sides) with chronic sinusitis. The following parameters were evaluated: (1) subjective nasal clinical symptoms (nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, postnasal drip and headache), (2) X-ray photographs (ethmoid and maxillary sinuses) and (3) cytokine levels (IL-1β, IL-8 and TNF-α) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The total nasal symptom scores significantly decreased after the first therapy, and the total X-ray photograph scores significantly decreased after therapy with either NS or the betamethasone solution. In both NS and betamethasone patients, the levels of IL-1β and IL-8 had significantly decreased by the 3rd and 2nd weeks after therapy, respectively. In contrast, the TNF-α level decreased after the first therapy with betamethasone solution and remained unchanged after therapy with NS. These findings suggest that evacuation of the pathological effusions in sinuses may exert a beneficial effect by reducing the levels of IL-1β and IL-8, and we speculate that removal of pathological effusions from the sinuses may provide treatment through different mechanisms than those that occur in treatment with betamethasone.

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We thank Miss Keiko Nakagumi for the technical assistance. This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, administered by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan (no. 13671781).

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    Kyosuke Furukido, Sachio Takeno, Tsutomu Ueda & Koji Yajin

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Furukido, K., Takeno, S., Ueda, T. et al. Cytokine profile in paranasal effusions in patients with chronic sinusitis using the YAMIK sinus catheter with and without betamethasone. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 262, 50–54 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-003-0713-9

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