[Assessment of nasal obstruction treatment with the rhinomanometric examination].

The aim of the present study was to assess of nasal obstruction treatment by means of rhinomanometry at patients with deviation of the nasal septum and with rhinitis allergic or vasomotor. The research encompassed 171 patients with nasal obstruction, medicated in Department ENT, who were assigned to 6 different groups according to nasal obstruction reason: group I--42 patients with deviation of the nasal septum, group II--32 patients and group III--34 patients deviation of the nasal septum and with allergic rhinitis, group IV--33 patients and group V--30 patients with deviation of the nasal septum and vasomotor rhinitis and 30 healthy subject forming control group. In groups I, II and IV patients performed plastic surgery of nasal septum and group II and IV performed inferior nasal concha surgery. Laboratory norms for rhinomanometry were fixed on the basis of healthy control group results analysis. After the surgical treatment normal results in rhinomanometry were found: in group I 81%, in group II 53%, in group III 62%, in group IV 51% and in group V 63% patients.