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. 2013 Spring;4(1):e45-8.
doi: 10.2500/ar.2013.4.0042.

Retained drug-eluting stents and recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: A case report

Phayvanh P Sjogren  1 , Noah P Parker, Holly C Boyer
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Retained drug-eluting stents and recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis: A case report

Phayvanh P Sjogren et al. Allergy Rhinol (Providence). 2013 Spring.

Abstract

Corticosteroids are the mainstay of treatment for refractory chronic rhinosinusitis. The off-label use of steroid-eluting stents has increasingly gained popularity in functional endoscopic sinus surgery for decreasing postoperative inflammation and synechiae formation. However, there is a paucity of data outlining the safety profile of this device despite its widespread use. This study was designed to report a newly described complication of retained drug-eluting stents from endoscopic sinus surgery for refractory rhinosinusitis. This report highlights a potential risk of the drug-eluting stent in the treatment of recalcitrant rhinosinusitis and the need for further clinical investigations whenever a novel medical device becomes available on the market.

Keywords: chronic; complication; corticosteroid; drug eluting; endoscopic sinus surgery; inflammation; polyposis; rhinosinusitis; sinusitis; stent.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare pertaining to this article

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Axial and coronal CT scans showing radio-opaque objects in frontal and ethmoid recesses bilaterally.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Intraoperative photograph of foreign body found in sphenoethmoidal recess.
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