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 desi...

Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma are expressions of airway inflammatory diseases that frequently coexist, especially in the case of adult-onset asthma. Both conditions have similar pathological features, while one affects the upper airways and the other the lower airways. Whether the treatment of bronchial inflammation affects the severity of sinus disease remains an unanswered question. We re...

Background CRSwNP(Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps) is characterized with eosinophil infiltration into sinonasal tissues in Caucasian patients. In Japan, this condition was thought to be an infectious disease (so called “empyema”) for a long time. However, after a clinical profile of ECRS(eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis) was first introduced by Moriyama in 2002, the prevalence of EC...