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The major symptoms of ENS include a sensation of suffocation, nasal dryness, nasal burning, nasal crusting, and an impaired sense of airflow through the nose in patients who have had surgery or injury to nasal turbinates. [13] ENS can greatly reduce a patient's quality of life and many patients struggle to complete activities of daily living.
Often functional endoscopic sinus surgery is required to remove nasal polyps, [35] although they typically recur, particularly if aspirin desensitization is not undertaken. Approximately, 90% of patients have been shown to have recurrence of nasal polyps within five years after surgery, with 47% requiring revision surgery in the same time ...
Nasal surgery is a specialty including the removal of nasal obstruction that cannot be achieved by medication and nasal reconstruction. Currently, it comprises four approaches, namely rhinoplasty, septoplasty, sinus surgery, and turbinoplasty, targeted at different sections of the nasal cavity in the order of their external to internal positions.
Data from the study shows that balloon sinus dilation is as effective as functional sinus surgery, and delivers a better patient recovery experience. [7] [8] Balloon and surgical patients experienced a similar, significant level of: symptom improvement; decline in number of rhinosinusitis episodes requiring medication in year after treatment
Patient lies down for 10–15 minutes after operation and pack is removed after an hour. Antibiotic should be given for 5–6 days in cases of suppuration depending upon culture and sensitivity. [17] Oral and local decongestant are given to improve the patency of ostium. [18] Analgesics may be required for post-operative headache. [9]
Caldwell-Luc surgery, Caldwell-Luc operation, also known as Caldwell-Luc antrostomy, and Radical antrostomy, is an operation to remove irreversibly damaged mucosa of the maxillary sinus. It is done when maxillary sinusitis is not cured by medication or other non-invasive technique. The approach is mainly from the anterior wall of the maxilla bone.
The person should expect some discomfort, congestion, and drainage from the nose in the first few days after surgery, but this should be mild. [21] Complications from endoscopic sinus surgery are rare, but can include bleeding and damage to other structures in the area including the eye or brain. [21] Many physicians recommend a course of oral ...
The endoscopic approach to FESS is a less invasive method than open sinus surgery, which allows patients to be more comfortable during and after the procedure. Entering the surgical field via the nose, rather than through an incision in the mouth as in the previous Caldwell-Luc method, decreases risk of damaging nerves which innervate the teeth ...