Nose and bays
Nose and bays
Dear patient,
Every surgical procedure (operation) may involve:
– with consequences that are the result of the disease or treatment (can occur at any stage of diagnosis and treatment)
– with complications which, although not due to an error, are undesirable events (occur with different frequency).
After the conchoplasty procedure the following consequences or complications may occur:
Frequent but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require tamponade
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Nasal pain
- Scab formation, clots, evacuation of auricle fragments, unpleasant smell
- Need for nasal cleansing and ointment application
- Abnormal hypertrophy of the auricle
- Open obstruction (empty nose syndrome), dryness in the nose
The following consequences or complications may occur after septoplasty:
Often less dangerous:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require changing the tamponade to a new one
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade or surgical closure of the blood vessel
- Nasal pain
- Upper lip swelling, hematoma in the palate
- Scab formation, clotting, nose odour
- Nose cleaning and ointment application necessary,
- Luxuxtaposition of the reimplanted cartilage (tilt of the inserted cartilage) with renewed deterioration of nasal patency
- Hematoma or septum abscess
- Occurrence of perforation (hole) in the nasal septum during treatment or healing
- Open obstruction (empty nose syndrome)
Rare, much more serious:
- Outer nose deformity with nasal collapse
- Massive bleeding requiring ligature of the neck artery
After the nasal bone repositioning procedure the following consequences or complications may occur:
Frequent but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require changing the tamponade to a new one
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Nose pain, facial and eyelid emphysema, eye haematomas around the eyes
- Upper lip swelling, hematoma in the palate
- Lack of good cosmetic effect, especially in case of delayed treatment or in multifracture fractures, lack of full nasal patency, which in the future may require septoplasty (nasal septic surgery)
Rare but more serious:
- External nose deformity with collapse of the ridge of the nose
- Massive bleeding requiring ligature of the neck artery
After maxillary sinus surgery, the following consequences or complications may occur:
Frequent but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require tamponade
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Facial emphysema, emphysema within the eyelids on the surgical side
- Swelling, bruising, cheek pain, cheek abscess
- Bone inflammation
- Suborbital nerve neuralgia complaints
- The spread of the wound in the vestibule of the oral cavity
- Very rarely: communication (fistula) between the sinus and the oral cavity survived
Rare but more serious
- Massive bleeding requiring ligature of the neck artery
After the FESS treatment the following consequences or complications may occur:
Frequent but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require tamponade
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Emphysema on the face, emphysema in the eyelids
- Swelling, bruising, pain in the nose and orbit, orbit tissue inflammation
- Bone inflammation, recurring infections
- Scab formation, clotting, evacuation of tissue fragments, unpleasant odour
- Need for nasal cleansing and ointment application
- Development of intra-nasal adhesions
- Neuralgia
- Re-growth of polyps or inflammatory tissue hypertrophy (with recurring infections)
- Very rare: permanent lack of smell after treatment
Rare, but more serious:
- Massive bleeding requiring a ligature of the neck artery
- Very rare: orbital hematoma
- Very rare: Visual nerve damage
- Fixed orbital symptoms: visual disturbance (splitting), lacrimation
- Liquid, meningitis, meningitis, need for a repair procedure
- Very rare: cavernous sinus bleeding
- Very rare: intracranial emphysema with the need for neurosurgery
- Very rare: eye blindness on the operated side
- Very rarely: cuts and bleeding from the internal carotid artery
After the procedure to remove the choanal polyp, the following consequences or complications may occur:
Frequent, but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24h), may require re-tamponade or surgical supply
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Swelling, bruising, cheek pain, cheek abscess
- Swelling, bruising, pain in the nose and orbit, orbit tissue inflammation
- Scab formation → Nose cleaning and ointment application necessary,
- Development of intra-nasal adhesions
- Bone inflammation
- Suborbital nerve neuralgia complaints
- The spread of the wound in the vestibule of the oral cavity
- Re-growth of the choanal polyp, especially after surgery conducted exclusively endoscopically
- Very rare: permanent lack of smell after treatment
Rare, but more serious:
- Massive bleeding requiring a ligature of the neck artery
- Very rare: orbital hematoma
- Very rare: fixed orbital symptoms: splitting, lacrimation
- Very rarely: fluid, meningitis, meningitis, need for a repair procedure
- The following consequences or complications may occur after an anterior sinus or rush surgery
- Frequent but harmless:
- Early bleeding (up to 24 hours), may require tamponade
- Late bleeding (usually up to 7 days, rarely later), may require tamponade
- Swelling of the forehead and eyelids on the operated side, orbit bruising, pain in the medial orbit angle, emphysema, orbit tissue inflammation
- Need for nasal cleansing and ointment application
- Resurrection of the osseointegration
- Development of intra-nasal adhesions, secondary sinus obstruction on this side, the need for a second treatment
- Recurrence of headache, recurrent obstruction of the anastomosis produced, need for another treatment
Rare but more serious:
- Very rare: orbital hematoma
- Fixed orbital symptoms: splitting, lacrimation
- Liquid, meningitis, meningitis, need for a repair procedure
- Very rare: complication of cavernous sinus bleeding, intracranial emphysema
After each extensive surgical procedure, a serious general complication may occur: Pneumonia, embolisms and venous clots, stroke, systemic infection, myocardial infarction, respiratory failure and death.