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Showing posts with label recurrent sinusitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recurrent sinusitis. Show all posts

December 08, 2017

Steps a Patient with Chronic Sinusitis Goes Thru

For the vast majority of patients with sinus infections , a trip to the primary care doctor's office and a prescription for antibiotics is all that is required. However, for the unfortunate few, several courses of oral antibiotics do not seem to help as much as it should. In such cases, these patients eventually end up at an ENT office for further evaluation and management. ASSUMING the patient has bona fide chronic or recurrent sinus infections and not some other medical problem conf…
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May 24, 2017

When is Sinus Surgery Appropriate for Recurrent or Chronic Sinus Infections?

Normal CT Sinus Scan When a patient suffers from chronic or recurrent sinus infections , sinus surgery is an option to consider especially when medical management has failed. There are the obvious candidates where any reasonable ENT would agree sinus surgery is required, but as with much of medicine, there are times when a patient may get several diametrically opposite opinions whether sinus surgery is recommended or not. Such opposing recommendations at its core occur due to what a CT …
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February 20, 2016

New Video on Sinusitis and Sinus Surgery Explained (Balloon Sinuplasty and Endoscopic Sinus Surgery)

A  new video  has been uploaded to YouTube that explains how sinus infections occur as well as how sinus surgery helps with this condition via balloon sinuplasty or traditional endoscopic sinus surgery . Sinus topics demonstrated in this video include: •  Chronic Sinusitis •  Endoscopic Sinus Surgery •  Balloon Sinuplasty
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