What Is Balloon Synoplasty?
The most important factor in the occurrence of chronic sinus infections slime produced in the sinuses (small channels that allows you to drain into the nose of mucus secretions (ostium) in addition to the accumulation of secretions in the sinus infection and sinus blockage of deterioration of.
Balloon synoplasty the technique called the principle of just cutting without removing any tissue of the sinuses blocked or narrowed discharge channels with the help of the balloon back of the functions of aeration and drainage is to provide a way of expanding.
The most important advantages of endoscopic surgery techniques technique compared with standard balloon synoplasty,
- To be an effective and safe method, (besides the fact that the risk of complication is very low, the channels are expanded with a balloon sinus drainage at the end of 2 years of 98%, it was observed that it is open,),
- Create very little tissue damage (small, soft, elastic, equipment used, gently opening the indoor sinus drainage channels by providing result was reached with very little tissue damage),
- The bleeding is much less
- Fast recovery time (24 hours in most patients can return to normal life),
- Later in the same area does not interfere with other treatments that can be done.
Balloon synoplasty standard technique alone can be used in special cases as may be used in conjunction with endoscopic sinus surgery.
Balloon Synoplasty Under What Circumstances?Is
Normally sinuses around the nose there are 8 four on each side. These are the frontal bones in the forehead, cheek bones, maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid sinus in the center of the head between the eyes are located in the left-most.
Less common anatomic variations, except for the frontal, Maxillary and sphenoid sinuses with a diameter of a few millimeters to a single discharge channel (ostium) with large gaps while ethmoid sinuses drain into the nasal discharge is in the form of a honeycomb with very small channels like 10-15 consists of small chambers. The dimensions of the equipment that is used during balloon synoplasty frontal, Maxillary and sphenoid sinuses, and ethmoid sinuses pass from the discharge of the channel is suitable for quite large for standard technique in cases of ethmoid sinusitis is not suitable for balloon synoplasty.
Surgery of patients with chronic sinusitis sinuses, ethmoid sinuses are the most monitored disease. Therefore, using only a standard technique in patients with chronic sinusitis balloon synoplasty, the proportion of patients who intervened to all the diseased sinus is quite small. Considering the anatomy of the sinus ethmoid sinuses that could interfere with this equipment balloon synoplasty feature also has been developed (Figure 2). Balloon catheters placed in the ethmoid sinuses sinuses sinuses into the reservoir with the help of the reach of the long, slow oscillating pharmaceutical applications can be made.
In this method, the standard technique as in balloon synoplasty, also post-operative care less need for, the risk of complications is low, due to advantages such as the simplicity of the surgical technique may be preferred in chronic inflammation of the ethmoid sinusitis balloon synoplasty.
Figure 2: frontal, maxillary, ethmoid sinuses applied in the drug reservoir catheter synoplasty
For today and in these cases the use of nasal polyps in patients with common synoplasty is restricted in certain areas during the classical endoscopic surgery endoscopic sinus surgery technique can be used not only as a classic balloon may be preferred.
Balloon synoplasty to the place of endoscopic sinus surgery technique is not a method, but technology provides significant advantages in special cases should be considered as a companion.
Balloon synoplasty safe?
Balloon synoplasty technology first when the application is started during operation to ensure proper placement of the balloon catheter in the patients with sinus channels during the procedure due to the use of fluoroscopic equipment X-ray were seen as the most important problem for this technique to take. Developed later, the light guide-entering with the use of wire, entered his forehead and cheek sinuses without the use of fluoroscopy to the possibility of being the provision of this problem was solved to a large extent.
Balloon synoplasty for today only during the light within the sphenoid sinus is not visible from the outside of the sinuses while back that way interfere with X-ray fluoroscopic equipment which are used. Fluoroscopy made the required settings on the device as well as the surgery by an experienced specialist when applied for a short duration by using the technique quite appropriate, given to the patient during the procedure, an X-ray of the amount is extremely small.
Balloon synoplasty technique used in surgery, to date very few complications were reported: during the expansion of the frontal sinus with the balloon in the immediate vicinity of the discharge channel in the cranial base damage is the most important one.
Frontal Sinus Stents With Reservoir
All who experienced the most difficulty in the field of therapy within the sinuses the sinuses are the sinuses of the forehead. Unlike other sinuses of the frontal sinus is located between the discharge channels and the hard bone structures depending on the anatomical structure, some patients can be extremely narrow. Because of the location, post-operative follow-up interventions after the forehead, which is very hard to his sinuses observed in these narrow channels of scar tissue, edema, secretions may result in the occurrence of the disease is rare with dried without closure.
Balloon synoplasty one of the most important benefits that come with technology in the sinuses of the forehead (frontal sinus) is the development of stents used the drug reservoir (Figure 3) . During the surgery of the frontal sinus with the drug reservoir stenet opened or expanded discharge of the sinus and the frontal sinus is placed into the channel from the reservoir gradually releasing the medication that is placed into the back of the mouth and prevents blockage of the sinus for two weeks.
Figure 3. Import the sinuses (frontal sinus) drug reservoir placed stent balloon
Frontal sinus frontal sinus stents can be placed through the channel as expanding balloon synoplasty following the frontal sinus during endoscopic sinus surgery in cases of intervention, with the aim to prevent congestion in this region during the recovery operation by way of the canal opened in prior to making expanded with a balloon sinus can be applied. Frontal sinus stents done in 2-3 weeks after surgery Polyclinic conditions, the dressings can be removed easily.