empty nose syndrome
MONDO:1060148Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names empty nose syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A rare iatrogenic disease characterized by paradoxical nasal obstruction and symptoms including air hunger and suffocation-like breathing sensation, nasal dryness and crusting, burning pain or cold airflow sensation, impaired sleep and cognitive function and severe anxiety and depression, and typically occurs after surgical reduction or removal of nasal turbinates.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:1060148), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: empty nose syndrome
- Also called
- ENSpost-turbinectomy syndromesecondary atrophic rhinitis