Elina Toskala

TL;DR: The ARIA guidelines for the management of allergic rhinitis and asthma are similar in both the 1999 ARIA workshop report and the 2008 Update as discussed by the authors, but the GRADE approach is not yet available.

TL;DR: The European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2020 is the update of similar evidence based position papers published in 2005 and 2007 and 2012 and addresses areas not extensively covered in EPOS2012 such as paediatric CRS and sinus surgery.

TL;DR: The European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2012 as discussed by the authors is the update of similar evidence-based position papers published in 2005 and 2007, it contains chapters on definitions and classification, we now also proposed definitions for difficult to treat rhinositis, control of disease, and better definitions for rhinosinitis in children.

TL;DR: This data indicates that rhinosinusitis in Europe is an underestimated disease, and the number of patients diagnosed with the disease and the severity of the disease should be increased.

TL;DR: Distinct CRS clusters with diverse inflammatory mechanisms largely correlated with phenotypes and further differentiated them and provided a more accurate description of the inflammatory mechanisms involved than phenotype information only.