title: Efficacy & outcomes of balloon sinuplasty in chronic rhinosinusitis: a prospective study.
abstract: Balloon Sinuplasty is a new technique which has revolutionized sinus surgery in recent times. Since its introduction in USA in 2004, it has become popular world-wide, due to its sophisticated technology, which uses balloon dilatational systems for dilating the sinus ostia through a minimally invasive approach and has provided satisfactory results in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Recent world literature supports the efficacy and outcomes of Balloon Sinuplasty system, with large multi-centric studies proving it to be a very effective tool in the management of various sinus pathologies. We performed this prospective clinical study to assess the efficacy & outcomes of Balloon Sinuplasty among 20 patients at our institution, who were followed up for 12 months after surgery. Patients were included as per inclusion criteria formulated for this study & were analyzed with respect to their pre-operative & post-operative symptomatology scores in comparison with their objective Diagnostic Nasal Endoscopy (DNE) & Computerized Tomography Scan of Paranasal Sinuses (CT-PNS) scoring systems. Significant improvements were recorded in patient's symptoms, from the first post-operative week until the end of the study period, and were objectively confirmed by the DNE & CT-PNS scores. The observations & results of our study highlight the efficacy of Balloon Sinuplasty technology in comparison to similar studies reported in recent world literature.
authors.affiliation: Madras ENT Research Foundation, No.1, 1st Cross Street, Off 2nd Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram, Chennai, 600028 India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raghunandhan
authors.affiliation: Madras ENT Research Foundation, No.1, 1st Cross Street, Off 2nd Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram, Chennai, 600028 India.
authors.forename: Tanmay
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.affiliation: Madras ENT Research Foundation, No.1, 1st Cross Street, Off 2nd Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram, Chennai, 600028 India.
authors.forename: Kiran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Natarajan
authors.affiliation: Madras ENT Research Foundation, No.1, 1st Cross Street, Off 2nd Main Road, Raja Annamalaipuram, Chennai, 600028 India.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kameswaran
keywords: Balloon sinuplasty; Lanza Kennedy DNE scoring system; Lund Kennedy criteria; Lund Mackay CT-PNS scoring system; Piccirillo’s sino-nasal outcome test (SNOT-20)