Propel Stent vs Kenalog-soaked Nasopore After Frontal Drill-out

Not Applicable

Terminated

Conditions: Stent
Sinusitis, Frontal

Interventions: Device: Nasopore
Device: Propel

Registration Number: NCT03534362

Lead Sponsor: St. Louis University

Brief Summary: Surgery on the frontal sinus is done for patients who have sinus problems that do not respond to medications. It involves making an opening within the right and left frontal sinus of the nose to help it drain. For severe frontal sinus disease, the sinus is widely opened and the left and right sinuses become one large sinus. This is done with sharp instruments and rigid endoscopes placed through the nostrils. While the sinus heals after surgery, a stent or steroids or both may be used to try to help make sure that the opening does not close back up. Two current options for this are Propel stents and steroid-soaked Nasopore. Propel stents are FDA-approved. Nasopore and Kenalog injection are both FDA-approved, but their use together is part of the study and not specifically FDA-approved. A previous study shows that Propel stents are useful to reduce scarring in other frontal sinus procedures. We would like to know whether this is true in larger frontal sinus surgery where one common cavity is made and whether both steroid-containing stents are the same.

Detailed Description: Endoscopic sinus surgery is commonly used to manage chronic inflammatory frontal sinus disease that is not adequately controlled with medical therapy alone. In recalcitrant cases, a more extensive procedure called the modified endoscopic Lothrop procedure or frontal drill-out (FDO) procedure is often performed. The frontal drill-out procedure is performed endoscopically and its goal is to create one large common cavity between the left and right frontal sinuses and nasal cavities to allow adequate drainage and communication for subsequent drug delivery through sinonasal irrigations if indicated. Failure of this procedure is most commonly the results of re-stenosis of the outflow tract due to scarring, adhesions, or progressive disease such as polyposis. One meta analysis assessing the long-term complications of frontal drillouts reported an overall failure rate to be 13.9%, defined as those individuals needing further surgery. Another clinical trial reported a failure rate for a 200-person study to be 30%.

Placing a steroid-eluding biodegradable stent into the sinonasal cavities after surgery is thought to reduce the occurrence of re-stenosis, both by physically stenting the opening and by treating resultant inflammation with corticosteroid. Propel stents are made of synthetic dissolvable polymer that contains a corticosteroid (mometasone furoate) and has been FDA-approved to stent and reduce inflammation over 30 days. Similarly, Nasopore is an FDA-approved fragmentable nasal dressing that is used as a stent. Kenalog soaking the Nasopore is thought to act as the functional equivalent of the mometasone furoate found in the Propel stent, but this use is investigational. The effect of stenting and its consequences on the outcomes of FDO specifically has also not been well studied.Recent randomized-controlled trial of Propel stent placement after frontal sinusotomy (a less extensive form of frontal sinus surgery compared to FDO procedure) showed improvement in outcomes compared to no stent placement and no major complications.There are no known randomized-controlled trials to date of propel stent placement or Nasopore-soaked Kenalog placement after FDO procedure. We wish, therefore, to perform a randomized trial to compare the efficacy and outcomes of Nasopore-soaked kenalog versus propel stenting.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: TERMINATED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 1

Inclusion Criteria

Patients able to speak and understand English
Patients for whom frontal drill out procedure is medically indicated

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who are cognitively impaired and unable to consent
Patients who are not candidates for Frontal Drill out
Patients with contraindications to PROPEL Mini sinus implant or Kenalog soaked nasopore: known hypersensitivity to mometasone furoate, Kenalog, lactide, glycolide or caprolactone copolymers
Non-English speaking patients

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nasopore Group	Nasopore	Nasopore group will receive frontal drill out procedure as indicated with Kenalog-soaked Nasopore stent intervention applied to the post-operative outflow tract.
Propel Stent Group	Propel	Propel stent group will receive frontal drill out procedure as indicated followed by Propel stent placement intervention applied to the post-operative outflow tract.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change From Baseline of Sino-Nasla Outcome Test (SNOT-22) Scores	After the surgery, we will ask patients to follow up 5 times: post-operatively once between week 1-2, once between week 6-8, month 6, month 12, and month 24.	To compare the difference in mean post-operative SNOT-22 scores between the Propel stent and Nasopore groups.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Surgical Postoperative Complications, Devices	After the surgery, we will ask patients to follow up 5 times: post-operatively once between week 1-2, once between week 6-8, month 6, month 12, and month 24.	To compare the incidence of other surgical postoperative complications (diagnosed post-operative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, epistaxis requiring treatment, adhesions) between Propel stent and Nasopore.
Surgical Postoperative Complications, Frontal Sinus Pathology	After the surgery, we will ask patients to follow up 5 times: post-operatively once between week 1-2, once between week 6-8, month 6, month 12, and month 24.	To ascertain the incidence of surgical complications based on the specific frontal sinus pathology.