An Approach to Reduce Uvula Edema After Tonsillectomy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-04-10
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A prospective randomized clinical trial that included thirty subjects who underwent tonsillectomy. The patients in Group 1 (n:15) were injected with dexamethasone (1 ml, 8 mg) through the uvula and soft palate tissue directly before tonsillectomy. Group 2 (n:15) patients had tonsillectomy without dexamethasone injection. Patients were examined preoperatively and postoperative on the first and fifth days. In this study investigators tried an approach of dexamethasone application to reduce uvula edema after tonsillectomy.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bezmialem Vakif University
• Treatments: BB 1101; Dexamethasone; Dexamethasone acetate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with recurrent tonsillitis but no sleep apnea

• Subjects older than eighteen years old

• Subjects were planned to have only tonsillectomy procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects who must have additional procedures other than tonsillectomy

• Subjects younger than eighteen years old

• Subjects that had intravenous dexamethasone administration perioperatively