Professor Peter-John Wormald's specific research interests centre on rhinology
and endoscopic sinus surgery. As part of the rhinological research programme, a research
team has successfully developed the sheep as an animal model to research various aspects
of nasal disease in surgery. This model overcomes some of the major drawbacks of the
other models currently in use and the same instruments and techniques can be used in the
sheep as in humans. This model has been validated and early work published. In addition
to the animal research work, there is a very extensive clinical research programme with
focus on nasal polyposis, fungal sinusitis and the effects of acid reflux on the upper
area digestive tract including the nose and sinuses.

Articles

A vascular catastrophe during endonasal surgery: an endoscopic sheep model. (with R Valentine), Skull Base (2011)

Internal carotid artery (ICA) injury is a dramatic complication of endonasal skull base approaches with...

 
Patient-reported olfactory function following endoscopic sinus surgery with modified endoscopic Lothrop procedure / Draf 3. (with J Yip and K Seiberlin), Rhinology (2011)

Objectives/Hypothesis: The Modified Endoscopic Lothrop procedure (MELP) or Draf 3 is a complex procedure, performed...

 
Staphylococcus aureus biofilms: nemesis of endoscopic sinus surgery (with D Singhal, A Foreman, and J-J Bardy), Laryngoscope (2011)

Objectives/Hypothesis: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients with biofilms have persistent postoperative symptoms, ongoing mucosal inflammation, and...

 
Aberrant mucin glycoprotein patterns of chronic rhinosinusitis patients with bacterial biofilms (with L Tan, A Psaltis, L Baker, M McGuckin, and K Rousseau), American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy (2010)

Background: Increasingly bacterial biofilms have been implicated in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), and conventional treatment methods...

 
Are routine dissolvable nasal dressings necessary following endoscopic sinus surgery? (with R Valentine), The Laryngoscope (2010)

BACKGROUND

Nasal dressings have frequently been advocated to improve wound healing and prevent ongoing bleeding...

 

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