title: [Evaluation of operation success in patients with nasal septal deviation with quality of life scale and objective methods].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this study we aimed to evaluate the quality of life during, before and after septoplasty in patients who were diagnosed with nasal septal deviation and also to demonstrate the role and importance of acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry methods in objectively demonstrating surgical success.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was carried out in 44 patients undergoing septoplasty surgery. Patients' preoperative complaints were evaluated by Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) scale. The pre- and post-decongestion acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry data of the patients were recorded simultaneously. One month after Cottle's septoplasty performed as the septal surgery method, patients were re-evaluated by NOSE scale, acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry and the findings were compared with the preoperative data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to the patients' preoperative values, a significant decrease in NOSE scores (p<0.05); a significant increase in the minimal cross-sectional area (MCA1, MCA2) and volume values measured by acoustic rhinometry (p<0.05) and a significant decrease in the nasal resistance values measured by rhinomanometry (p<0.05) were observed. No significant relationship was found between the change in patients' pre- and postoperative NOSE score values and the change in their acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry data (p>005).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nowadays, evidence-based medical practices are increasingly gaining importance and acoustic rhinometry and rhinomanometry are methods that can be used in objective evaluation of operation success.
authors.affiliation: İzmir Tepecik Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İzmir, Türkiye. emengi@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Erdem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mengi
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cukurova
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yalçın
authors.forename: Orhan Gazi
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Yiğitbaşı
authors.forename: Yücel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Karaman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D013517:Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation / Q000502:physiology; D011788:Quality of Life; D023842:Rhinometry, Acoustic; D012225:Rhinoplasty; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult