B O S T O N, Nov. 20 -- A new kind of surgery, called "Stealth," is helping to make sinusitis less painful. More than 30 million Americans suffer from the pain and pressure of the occasional or ...

Interviewer: You had your sinus surgery and now it's afterwards and you've probably got a lot of questions. What's going to happen during your recovery, what do you need to do or avoid, and what are ...

The goal of endoscopic sinus surgery is to improve the drainage of the sinuses and prevent mucus from building up in these chambers. When secretions accumulate in a blocked off sinus, they may become ...

January 6, 2010 — Quality of life (QOL) is significantly improved for patients with chronic sinusitis who undergo endoscopic surgery, according to the results of a prospective, multi-institutional ...

THE effect of nasal and sinus surgery upon the manifestations of allergy has long been controversial. The purpose of this paper is to present a point of view based upon about twenty years of ...

A new CT-scan-based risk score facilitates the identification of patients at risk of revision endoscopic sinus surgery due to chronic rhinosinusitis. "This allows for early prediction of disease ...

Sinus surgery is more effective than antibiotics at treating chronic rhinosinusitis, according to a major clinical trial led by University College London (UCL) along with academics at the University ...

PORTLAND, Ore.-- Adults with chronic rhinosinusitis —a debilitating inflammation of the nasal passages that lasts for months and keeps coming back — report significantly improved quality of life ...

Endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) provides significantly better disease-specific quality of life at 6 months than long-term, low-dose treatment with the macrolide antibiotic ...

If you have chronic sinus infections, you aren’t alone. An estimated 30.8 million Americans have chronic sinus problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fortunately, ...