Evaluation of ear, nose, and throat-screening in liver transplantation candidates: A retrospective cohort study.
Eline BeukmanAdriaan J van der MeerR Bart TakkenbergCaroline M den HoedAndries Paul NagtegaalPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2023)
Sinusitis or a neoplasm was diagnosed in almost 6% in a large cohort of LT candidates. Although almost a third of sinusitis patients were not treated accordingly, we did not observe any complicated sinusitis after LT. A more conservative approach to sinusitis may therefore be justified in LT candidates, especially in asymptomatic cases. At our institution, we aim to refer only those patients with specific ENT complaints .