Empty Nose Articles


 

1. Surgical Treatment for Empty Nose Syndrome

2. Dr. Grossan's Empty Nose Syndrome Oct 2003

3. Dr. Wellington Tichenor's explanation of Empty Nose Syndrome  

4. Your Nose: The Guardian of Your Lungs

5. Anatomy of the human nasal cavity conditions air before it reaches the lungs

6. Impact of unilateral sinus surgery with resection of the turbinates

7. Obstructed Nose - a thorough explanation of turbinate surgery options and mention of ENS

8. Procedure to treat dryness and discomfort resulting from  turbinate reduction surgery

9. The Normal Inferior Turbinate: Histomorphometric Analysis and Clinical Implications.

10. Complications following bilateral turbinectomy.

11. Chronic sinusitis: a sequela of inferior turbinectomy.

12. Extended follow-up of total inferior turbinate resection for relief of chronic nasal obstruction.

13. Empty nose syndrome

14. Can't breathe?

15. Grand Rounds presentation on Atrophic Rhinitis.

16. Nasal obstruction

17. Nasal turbinate surgery?

18. Grand Rounds presentation on inferior turbinate dysfunction - March 03

 

 




 

Articles published in professional medical journals which warn against the negative possible side effects of turbinectomies:


The turbinates in nasal and sinus surgery: A consensus statement. Rice DH et al', Ear Nose & Throat Journal, Feb' 2003. (warns specifically against ENS and secondary Atrophic Rhinitis).

The combination of acoustic rhinometry, rhinoresistometry and flow simulation in noses before and after turbinate surgery: A model study. Grutzenmacher S, Lang C and Mlynski G.; ORL (Journal) volume 65, 2003, pp 341-347. (explains the change of airflow patterns and their affect on nasal physiology, in ENS).

The normal inferior turbinate: Histomorphometric analysis and clinical implications. By Berger G, Balum-Azim M, and Ophir D. In Laryngoscope (volume 113), July 2003. (mentions ENS and Rhinitis Sicca as known outcomes of removing too much turbinate tissue).

Treatment of hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate: Long-term results in 382 patient randomly assigned to therapy. by Passali D, et al'. in Ann' Otol' Rhinol' Laryngol', volume 108, 1999. (Warns against Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis and claims that of all the different techniques of turbinate reduction - turbinectomy, and total turbinectomy, causes the most negative side effects, and lists them).

Tailored nasal surgery for normalization of nasal resistance. by Sulsenti G, and Palma P. in Journal of Facial Plastic Surgery, volume 12, number 4, October 1996. (warns against cutting too much turbinate tissue and warrants such operation as highly destructive and disruptive to nasal and pulmonary physiology).

Surgical treatment of the inferior turbinate: new techniques: Chang and Ries W. in Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, volume 12, 2004 (pp 53-57). (warns specifically against ENS and Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis as well known side effects of turbinectomies).

Septoplasty and turbinate surgery. by Becker D. in Aesthetic Surgery Journal, September/October 2003, volume 23, number 5. (warns against Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis as well known side effects of turbinectomies).

Rebuilding the inferior turbinate with hydroxyapatite cement. by Rice DH. in ENT- Ear Nose & Throat Journal. April 2000. (describes a method of transplant for alleviating symptoms of ENS, caused by too much turbinate resection).

Extended follow-up of total inferior turbinate resection for relief of chronic nasal obstruction. by Moore GF, Freeman TJ, Yonkers AJ, and Ogren FP. in Laryngoscope, volume 95, September 1985. (strongly condemns the procedure of inferior turbinectomy because of it's long term negative side effects).

Erasorama surgery. by May M, and Schaitkin BM. in Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 2002, volume 10, pp: 19-21. (Warns against the development of ENS and Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis because of too much Turbinate and other nasal tissues resection, and also explains the inside dynamics and politics of the ENT world in regards to why do many surgeons still ignore those warnings).

Complications following bilateral turbinectomy. by Oburra HO, in East African Medical Journal, volume 72, number 2, February 1995. (Condemns inferior turbinectomy as a cause of Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis).

Chronic Sinusitis: A sequela of Inferior Turbinectomy. by Berenholz L, et al'. in American Journal of Rhinology, July-August 1998, volume 12, number 4. (warns against inferior turbinectomy causing Chronic Sinusitis and Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis).

Atrophic rhinitis: A review of 242 cases. by Moore EJ, and Kern EB. In American Journal of Rhinology. November- December 2001, volume 15, number 6. (the landmark paper on ENS and Secondary Atrophic Rhinitis proving strong and significant statistical links between turbinectomies and the late development of Secondary Atrophic Rhinits and ENS in 242 documented cases).

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