Talk:Balloon sinuplasty

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"Patients typically wake up feeling that for the first time in years they can breathe freely. Headaches and sinus pressure are reportedly gone and patients state they can begin living a normal productive life again. Patients often return to work within 24 hours. After often years of medication and frustraton, patients state they finally feel relief."

This procedure can cause brain damage and vision loss. Why doesn't the article state this prominently? Because it is written like an ad to promote a commercial product. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neutralpov (talk • contribs) 21:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Sinuplasty (procedure) version
Balloon Sinuplasty™ is a treatment for sinusitis by enlarging blocked sinus passageways using a flexible balloon catheter that is inflated at the blockage site and then removed, thus allowing normal mucociliary flow. This is a less invasive technique than the conventional method, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, that cuts away sinus tissue. It is claimed that balloon sinuplasty will not cause the scarring, unpredictable and longer healing of functional sinus surgery. Long term results are not yet available. Balloon Sinuplasty has been heavily promoted in the lay press and some experts are concerned that this will generate unrealistic expectations by potential patients, as was reported in the NY Times on May 8th, 2006. Also, some leading physicians are concerned that it is not well suited for the most common forms of rhinosinusitis that currently benefit from surgery.

Although Balloon dilation of the sinuses has been previously described this newer form called Balloon Sinuplasty, which crushes bone, was invented in 2005 to ease sinusitis. Unfortunately, the new ballon used is very expensive and can cost over $1200.00. According to ABC World News it is a similar operation to those done for clogged arteries where, with general anesthesia, a balloon is inserted into the sinus through the nose. It then inflates and permanently holds the passage open or open wider by fracturing the tiny bones. It does this without the same tissue swelling seen with other forms of surgery. The procedure is outpatient and people can return to work/school the next day. This operation is reported by patients to be alleviating sinusitis but long term follow information is not yet published. Balloon sinuplasty has been typically described in conjunction with other endoscopic sinus surgery techniques and does not replace the more commonly perfomed surgery but may help supplement it.

Sinuplasty procedure version
Balloon Sinuplasty™ is a treatment for sinusitis by enlarging blocked sinus passageways using a flexible balloon catheter that is inflated at the blockage site and then removed, thus allowing normal mucociliary flow. This is a less invasive technique than the conventional method, functional endoscopic sinus surgery, that cuts away sinus tissue. It is claimed that balloon sinuplasty will not cause the scarring, unpredictable and longer healing of functional sinus surgery. Long term results are not yet available.

A sinuplasty is a procedure invented in 2005 to ease sinusitis. According to ABC World News it is a similar operation to those done for clogged arteries where, with general anesthesia, a balloon is inserted into the sinus through the nose. It then inflates and permanently holds the passage open or open wider by fracturing the tiny bones. It does this painlessly and without swelling. The procedure is outpatient and people can return to work/school the next day. This operation is reported by patients to be incredible in alleviating sinusitis.

While the procedure may appear to be expensive at first, the long term savings from not repeatedly buying drugs to treat the symptoms far outweighs the cost of the procedure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.176.120.50 (talk) 16:58, 26 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Is this procedure permanent or does the nasal cavity return to normal eventually. I cannot imagine anything fixing my sinuses.        Adam (talk) 02:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

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Amazingly biased article
This is probably the most biased article that I have ever seen on Wikipedia. I don't really know about this procedure, but I can tell from the type of language used, and the types of arguments used that whoever guided this article really didn't like this surgery. I'm surprised that others on Wikipedia have allowed it to remain like this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.117.73.112 (talk) 15:15, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Broken references in Research section
Leaving aside any disputes over content, the Research section had become corrupted. I've done my best at restoring it, taking as my starting point the version of 23:35, 21 April 2015. This recovered the work that had been done at this edit. &mdash; BillC talk 19:02, 27 January 2016 (UTC)