Laser Surgery for Allergic Rhinitis

Laser Surgery for Allergic Rhinitis: The Effect on Seromucinous Glands

“…The dense fibrous stroma, which is characteristic of laser-treated areas, 14 may also interfere with the blood supply of the damaged acini. This work does not support the speculation of Fukutake et al 5,6 because we did not observe reduction in cholinesterase enzyme activity in the cholinergic parasympathetic nerve fibers around the glands despite the decrease in the number of the fibers, possibly resulting from destruction of the nerve fibers by heat in lasertreated areas. A similar observation was reported by Talaat et al 15 after submucosal diathermy.…”

Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Laser Turbinate Reduction in the Management of Allergic Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophy: Our Experience

“…The relief in nasal discharge and sneezing may be attributed to destruction of highly vascular submucosa and transection of nerve fibers, which are branches of postnasal nerve, respectively. These findings correlated with the previous studies on KTP laser; 73.33% of the patients were relieved of nasal obstruction, which may be due to the scar tissue of the lasered turbinate preventing the rapid congestion and decongestion swings of the turbinate as proposed by Fukutake et al 14 …”

Wedge Turbinectomy: A New Combined Photocoagulative Nd:YAG Laser Technique

“…In accord with the observations of other authors, we found that the turbinates were completely re‐epithelialized in approximately 2 months. 3–5 In our experience the complication rate is very low. In only 5 of the 121 patients treated in our study (4.1%) was there moderate intraoperative bleeding; hemostasis was achieved by placing plugs soaked in epinephrine on the bleeding area for approximately 2 minutes.…”