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ENTMild
Nasal Polyps
ENT (Otorhinolaryngology) · ENT
Mild
Severity
Common — affects roughly 4% of the general population, more often in adults with asthma or allergies
Prevalence
No
Contagious
ENT (Otorhinolaryngology)
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Nasal polyps develop from chronic inflammation of the nasal and sinus lining
- 2often driven by conditions such as allergic rhinitis
- 3chronic sinusitis
- 4asthma
- 5or aspirin sensitivity. The exact trigger for polyp formation is not completely understood
- 6but it involves an ongoing inflammatory response that causes the mucous membrane to swell and eventually form grape-like growths. A combination of aspirin sensitivity
- 7asthma
- 8and nasal polyps together is recognized as a distinct clinical syndrome.
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