Balloon Sinuplasty Treatment
As a result of the developments in recent years, especially in the field of medical technology, in the surgical treatment of chronic sinusitis, on the one hand, it increases the chance of success of the surgery and ensures that it is performed with less trauma, while on the other hand, it reduces the risk of complications. Technologies and devices that significantly reduce it have been put into use. One of the most important of these technological innovations is balloon sinuplasty. This technology can also be used safely and extremely beneficially after the necessary training and experience are provided for its use.
What is Balloon Sinuplasty?
Clogging or narrowed ejaculation channels of the sinuses It is to ensure its functions by expanding it with the help of a balloon without cutting or removing any tissue.
What are the advantages of balloon sinuplasty?
It is an effective and safe method. The possibility of complications is very low and it has been observed that the drainage channels (ostiums) expanded with a balloon are 98%open after 2 years.
It is minimally invasive: small, soft, elastic equipment is used in the technique, and the result is achieved with very little tissue trauma by gently opening the closed sinus drainage channels.
Low amount of bleeding: in some cases, no tissue is removed. There is very little bleeding as it is not required.
Fast recovery: most patients can return to their normal life within 24 hours.
It does not have a hindering role in other treatments that can be performed in this area in the future. . It can be applied together or sequentially with other surgeries.
Is the balloon technique a solution for all sinusitis?
The balloon technique is not a technique that completely replaces sinusitis surgery, but a new one. and is a specialized assistive technology. When this technique was first used, due to the characteristics of the existing equipment, it could only be used for the forehead, cheek and sphenoid sinuses (the most posterior sinus in the head). Recently, equipment that can also intervene in the ethmoid sinuses with balloon sinus surgery has been developed. Intrasinus medication can be administered by reaching the sinuses with the help of reservoir balloon catheters placed in the ethmoid sinuses. Mist For this reason, the use of sinuplasty in nasal polyps is limited, and in these cases, the balloon technique combined with classical endoscopic surgery can be used, or only classical endoscopic sinus surgery can be preferred.
Is the balloon technique safe?
No major complications have been reported in the cases performed to date. Since the fluoroscopy device was used to ensure the proper placement of balloon catheters in the sinus channels during the surgery, the fact that patients received X-rays during the procedure was seen as the most important problem for this technique. In order to eliminate this problem, the development of illuminated guide wires and the ability to enter the forehead, cheek and sphenoid sinuses without using a scope have solved this problem. Frontal sinus reservoir stents One of the most important benefits of balloon sinuplasty technology, especially in the forehead sinuses (frontal sinus) strong> is the development of stents with steroid reservoirs. Unlike other sinuses, the forehead sinus discharge channels are located between hard bone structures and can be extremely narrow depending on the anatomical structure. After interventions on the forehead sinuses, which are very difficult to observe in postoperative follow-ups due to their location, these narrow channels are blocked by healing tissue, edema, and dried secretions, which may not rarely cause the disease to recur. Reservoired forehead sinus stents, which are a part of balloon sinuplasty technology, are placed into the sinus through the forehead sinus discharge channels that are opened or expanded during surgery, and prevent the sinus mouth from being blocked again by slowly releasing the steroid placed in the reservoir for two weeks. Frontal sinus stents can be placed through the expanded frontal sinus canal following balloon sinus surgery, or in cases where the frontal sinus is intervened during endoscopic sinus surgery, they can be placed through the sinus canal opened during the surgery without expanding with a balloon, in order to prevent obstruction in this area during healing. Frontal sinus stents can be easily removed under outpatient clinic conditions with dressings made 2-3 weeks after surgery.
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