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fter rounds of medications fail to clear patients' stuffy,
congested heads, they want a fix and they want it fast.
While there is no cure for chronic sinusitis, new treat-
ment options and surgical technologies are providing
easier and more effective relief to patients. "The treat-
ments are aimed at draining the sinuses while being painless to the
patient and as long-lasting as they can be, so patients don't have fre-
quent recurrences," says Martin L. Hopp, MD, PhD, medical director
of the Cedars-Sinai Sinus Center in Los Angeles.
With technology like drug-eluting stents, balloon sinuplasty and ENT
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Clear your patients' heads with
balloon sinuplasty, image-guided
navigation and steroid-eluting stents.
Kendal Gapinski
Associate Editor
z SINUS SURGERY Natan Scher, MD, performs sinus
surgery at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill.
Ingalls
Memorial
Hospital