Complications
Postoperative complications are summarised in Table 4. The rates of
neurosurgical complications, including transient diabetes insipidus,
hypopituitarism, and postoperative CSF leakage were not significantly
different between the two groups (P = .77, 1.00 and 1.00,
respectively). No patients had meningitis, prolonged diabetes insipidus
or intracranial hemorrhage.
One patient (4%) in each group reported self-limiting epistaxis. One
(4%) patient in the transseptal group was found to have septal
infection and was treated successfully with short-term antibiotics.
There was no significant difference in these two complications between
the two groups (P = 1.00 and 1.00, respectively). None of the
patients in the transseptal group had postoperative septal
perforation.