Arya Vyshnavam, Praneeth Potluri, Sneha Venkatesan, Saurabh Varshney, Amit Kumar*, Amit Kumar Tyagi, Bhinyaram Jat and Rachit Sood
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
*Corresponding Author: Amit Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Received: December 21, 2022; Published: January 18, 2023
Objectives: To evaluate the role of Stroboscopic research instrument in the diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal reflex patients.
Methods: Patients coming to otorhinolaryngology OPD after informed consent were grouped into cases and controls according to the RSI Score (≥13 and < 13, respectively). Matching was performed between cases and controls according to age, sex, and body mass index. All the subjects underwent laryngeal endoscopy and videostroboscopy, and findings were evaluated using the Reflux Finding Score (RFS) and the Stroboscopic Research Instrument (SRI) score, respectively.
Results: For the 86 patients (43 cases and 43 controls) in this study, the mean RFS was 8.60 ± 2.59 among the cases and 4.98 ± 2.45 among the controls. Among the cases, only 76.7% showed a high RFS (≥7). The means SRI score in cases were 79.60 ± 73.85 and in controls were 23.86 ± 41.76. In the SRI, the amplitude, symmetry, duration of closure, and mucosal wave parameters were significantly different between cases and controls. We also found a weak positive correlation between the SRI score and RFS in cases of LPR.
Conclusion: Our study tried to establish the role of SRI in the objective evaluation of LPR patients and found weak correlation between laryngoscopic and stroboscopic findings using standardized instruments.
Keywords: Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR); Videostroboscopy; Laryngeal Endoscopy; Stroboscopic Research Instrument (SRI); Reflux Symptom Index (RSI); Reflux Finding Score (RFS)
Citation: Amit Kumar., et al. “Evaluating the Utility of Stroboscopic Research Instrument in the Diagnosis of Laryngopharyngeal Reflex".Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 5.2 (2023): 26-30.
Copyright: © 2022 Amit Kumar., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.