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Record W4409980549 · doi:10.51253/pafmj.v75i2.11240

Comparison of Corticosteroids Effectiveness via High Volume Nasal Irrigation versus Conventional Nasal Spray after Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in Nasal Polyposi

2025· article· en· W4409980549 on OpenAlex
Chaudhry Muhammad Bilal Akram, Abdul Hakim, Aftab Hussain, Muhammad Zubair Khan, Maryam Khan, Kamran Ashfaq Ahmed Butt

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Bibliographic record

VenuePakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSinusitis and nasal conditions
Canadian institutionsBombardier (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineNasal sprayEndoscopic sinus surgerySurgeryNasal administrationChronic rhinosinusitisAnesthesiaPharmacology

Abstract

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Objective: To compare the efficacy of two different methods of topical corticosteroid delivery techniques; conventional nasal spray versus high volume nasal irrigation with squeeze bottle, post-operatively in patients of nasal polyposis. Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Ear Nose Throat, Combined Military Hospital, Kohat Pakistan, from Sep 2021 to Aug 2022. Methodology: A total of 80 patients diagnosed with nasal polyposis were recruited for this study. Selected patients were divided into two equal groups. Pre-operatively all patients were carefully assessed with the help of Sino-nasal outcome test 22 (SNOT 22) and Lund Kennedy Endoscopy score for severity of symptoms. Post-operatively, Group-A received Betamethasone via high volume irrigation by squeeze bottle whereas Group-B received the Beclomethasone via conventional nasal spray. This treatment plan continued for 3 months. Post-operatively, SNOT 22 and Lund Kennedy Endoscopy score assessment was carried out at 3 months. Results: Both groups were comparable with respect to demographic data. In Group-A pre-op median and interquartile range for SNOT score was 68 and 10 respectively and it was reduced to 14 and 5 post-operatively, whereas in Group-B, it was 68 and 10; 27 and 5.5 pre and post-operatively. Post-operative difference was significant (p-value=0.001). Similarly, in Group-A, pre and post-operative median and interquartile range for LKE score 6 and 1 respectively and 2 and 0, whereas in Group-B it was 6.22 and 0.4 and 1.5 with statistically significant post-operative difference (p-value=0.001). Conclusion: High volume irrigation with squeeze bottle is more effective method of delivering....

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.335 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it