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RecruitingNCT05979662Updated Aug 7, 2023

Endoscopic Frontal Sinus Surgery Draf III in Moderate to Severe Eosinophilic Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Polyps

An interventional study of Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 6(Draf III). and Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 1-3(Draf I or IIa) in Endoscopic Frontal Sinus Surgery, Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps and Draf III, sponsored by Ibrahim Talal Elshamy. Recruiting at 2 sites in Egypt. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-08-07.

Sponsored by Ibrahim Talal Elshamy · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Sep 2023, 3 years 1 month ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Registered 2 years 6 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2021, registered Jul 2023).
  • Started Jan 2021; still recruiting 5 years 10 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the primary endoscopic frontal sinus surgery on the clinical outcome in patients having moderate to severe eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps with primary outcome measures in form of recurrence of polyp using endoscopic polyp score and Secondary outcome measures include Lund MacKay score, SNOT-22 and need for corticosteroid to control polyp postoperatively.

Read the detailed description

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a common inflammatory disorder, affecting about 4% of the population worldwide and strongly impacts the quality of life of affected patient.

Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (ECRS) is a subtype of recalcitrant Chronic rhinosinusitis . Patients with ECRS and generally having a tissue eosinophil >10 cells per high power field (HPF), have worse disease severity and poorer treatment outcomes compared to non-Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis.

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Conditions studied

  • Endoscopic Frontal Sinus Surgery
  • Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps
  • Draf III
  • Draf I or IIa
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In context

Nasal Polyps

236 studies on the registry are indexed under Nasal Polyps; 68 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 60 across 181 interventional studies indexed under Nasal Polyps.

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Lead sponsor

This is the only study on the registry with Ibrahim Talal Elshamy as lead sponsor.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with moderate or severe eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis with polyps who failed appropriate medical treatment in the form of antibiotic, systemic and local for 3 months .

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Narrow anteroposterior diameter of frontal sinus ostium(1cm or less)
  • Patients showing less or highest degree of radiological complexity of surgery on studying the Computed Tomography.
  • Any for general anesthesia.
  • Patients below age of 18 years.
  • Incomplete follow up
  • previous sinus surgery
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Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

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Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Group one

    Patients will undergo endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 6(Draf III).

    Procedure: Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 6(Draf III).

  • Active comparator
    Group two

    Patients will undergo endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 1-3(Draf I or IIa).

    Procedure: Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 1-3(Draf I or IIa)

Interventions

  • ProcedureEndoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 6(Draf III).

    Patients will receive endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 6(Draf III).

  • ProcedureEndoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 1-3(Draf I or IIa)

    Patients will receive endoscopic frontal sinus surgery grade 1-3(Draf I or IIa).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Recurrence of polyp using endoscopic polyp score

    Polyps were evaluated on each side through nasal endoscopy at each visit and graded based on polyp size, resulting in scores of 0 to 4 9. Zero is no polyp, 1 = small polyps in the middle meatus not reaching below the inferior border of the middle turbinate, 2 = polyps reaching below the lower border of the middle turbinate, 3 = large polyps reaching the lower border of the inferior turbinate or polyps medial to the middle turbinate, and 4 = large polyps causing complete obstruction of the inferior nasal cavity. The sum of the left and right nostril scores is the Nasal Polyp Score

    Time frame: One year postoperatively

Secondary outcomes

  1. Lund MacKay score

    The Lund-Mackay staging system scores each sinus (anterior ethmoid, posterior ethmoid, maxillary, frontal, and sphenoid sinuses) according to the following scale: 0 (no opacification), 1 (partial opacification), or 2 (complete opacification).

    Time frame: One year postoperatively

  2. Sinonasal Outcome Test- 22

    SNOT- 22 was measured based on a 0-5 scale, where 0 defines no problems with the given symptom and 5 defines maximal problems

    Time frame: One year postoperatively

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — The data will be available upon a reasonable request from the corresponding author after the end of study for one year.

Supporting information: Study protocol

Time frame: after the end of study for one year.

Access criteria: The data will be available upon a reasonable request from the corresponding autho

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jan 2021 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Sep 2023, 32 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jul 29, 2023
First posted
Aug 7, 2023
StartActual
Jan 1, 2021
Primary completionEst.
Sep 30, 2023
CompletionEst.
Sep 30, 2023
Last update
Aug 7, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 7, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05979662
Lead sponsor
Ibrahim Talal Elshamy
Responsible party
Ibrahim Talal Elshamy (Assistant Lecturer of Otorhinolaryngology, Tanta University) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Aug 7, 2023
Start date
Jan 1, 2021
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 7, 2023

Study contacts

Ibrahim T Elshamy, MSc
Contact
hematalal93@gmail.com
+20 102 237 3920

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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