Propel stent clears chronic sinusitis

CHICAGO – Stuffy nose, headaches, coughing, facial and receptor pain. These are conscionable immoderate of the symptoms for chronic sinusitis. Allergy shots and medications whitethorn enactment for some, but for patients whose information is resistant, country whitethorn beryllium an option. But sometimes a revision country is besides needed. Now a recently FDA-approved instrumentality is reducing the request for aggregate surgeries and bringing patients overmuch needed relief.

Carol Temkin is each astir music, family, and her canine Tucker …

But her chronic sinus issues made these moments pugnacious to enjoy.

“I would conscionable person these times wherever I couldn’t breathe. It was precise hard to conscionable unrecorded mundane life,” shared Carol.

Temkin tried allergy shots, over-the-counter medication, nasal sprays, and adjacent antibiotics.

“So beauteous much, I was doing everything that I could bash to marque it better, but it wasn’t getting better,” said Carol.

Ear, nose, and pharynx doc Ryan Vaughn believed country could beryllium an enactment for Temkin. However owed to scarring …

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“The likelihood of needing country again tin beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic 50 to 60 percent, depending connected the patient’s conditions,” stated Ryan Vaughn, M.D., Founder, CEO, and Director, Exhale Sinus and Facial Pain Center.

But an innovative FDA-approved stent is reducing the request for revision surgery.

“The PROPEL stent is capable to beryllium placed aft the sinus has been opened and what it does is really sits wrong the opening, putting unit outward successful a gentle manner and besides releasing an anti-inflammatory medication,” explained Dr. Vaughn.

Preventing the sinus from scarring and meaning much country aboriginal on. Temkin had country and had the PROPEL stent added successful and is feeling overmuch amended now.

“As my hubby says, ‘you’re not snoring.’ I tin respire done my nose, truthful it’s beauteous amazing,” smiled Carol.

The PROPEL stent stays wrong the sinus for astir 45 days and dissolves connected its own. Dr. Vaughn says erstwhile sinus country is performed and the PROPEL stent is placed in, patients volition commencement to spot alleviation successful a substance of days.

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