Today in ENT Allergy: AAOA's Podcast

Podcast Host: Scott Fortune, MD, FAAOA Podcast Guests: Meha Fox, MD, FAAOA; Peter Filip, MD, FAAOA If you’ve trained in the last decade, you probably learned to classify chronic rhinosinusitis as one of two things: CRS with nasal polyps or CRS without nasal polyps. That’s CRSwNP and CRSsNP. Simple. Clean. Easy to document. But here’s the problem — that binary has been quietly failing us for years. It doesn’t tell us why a patient has polyps. It doesn’t predict who will respond to biologics. And

Are you missing rare eosinophilic disease diagnoses? Join an expert multidisciplinary panel for a podcast series highlighting the diagnostic challenges of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA; formerly Churg-Strauss) and what the otolaryngologist needs to know. Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Villwock. Rare Eosinophilic Disease Part 2 – Diagnostic Challenges & the Role of the ENT Listen to 2 expert otolaryngologists, Drs. Michael Platt and Ashoke Khanwalkar, in conjunction with their pu

Listen to Drs. Praveen Akuthota (pulmonologist), Anisha Dua (rheumatologist), and Michael Platt (otolaryngologist) provide an overview of EGPA and highlight what findings might increase the level of suspicion for rare disease.

In the fourth and final episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Shared Decision-Making, Jennifer Villwock, MD will bring together the 3 speakers from the previous 3 podcasts in this series to discuss their approaches to shared decision-making with patients diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps as well as their thoughts about how to incorporate multidisciplinary/co-specialty management into their respective practices to optimize patient care. Please take

In the third episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Quality of Life Burden, Jennifer Villwock, MD will be speaking with Christine Franzese, MD about the potential quality of life burdens experienced by patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps, how this may impact course of disease and optimal ways to address these issues with patients. Dr. Villwock is an associate professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center and Chief

In the second episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Common Co-morbidities, Jennifer Villwock, MD will be speaking with Amber Luong, MD, PhD, about recognition of the respiratory and non-respiratory co-morbidities often associated with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps and how this might influence diagnosis and disease outcomes. Dr. Villwock is an associate professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center and Chief of Otolaryngo