Endoscopic Balloon Dacryoplasty in Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction

  • Nishi Gupta

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Introduction

This video explains the technique of balloon dacryoplasty in congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction using Coronary Angioplasty Balloons.

About The Author

Nishi Gupta

Dr. Nishi Gupta is currently the head of the Otorhinolaryngology and associate medical director at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye and ENT hospital New Delhi India. Her initial work on Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy was compiled and was released by Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye & ENT hospital in the form of a video cassette in 1999. She subsequently published three editions on Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy, first in 2006, second in 2011, and third in 2020 with Springer. She has published articles in various national and international journals and has reviewed national and three international journals.

Dr. Gupta obtained her MS degree in Otorhinolaryngology from Nagpur university in 1992, followed by a Postgraduate diploma in hospital management from NIHFW Delhi and training at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children London. She popularized the technique of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy in the country. For more than two decades, her association with the only Eye & ENT institute helped her pursue her passion in endoscopic lacrimal sinus and orbital surgeries. She has been conducting annual live surgical demonstration workshops and hands-on cadaver dissection training sessions on endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy and endoscopic sinus surgeries for more than two decades.

 

About this video

Author(s)
Nishi Gupta
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6109-0
Online ISBN
978-981-19-6109-0
Total duration
9 min
Publisher
Springer, Singapore
Copyright information
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

Video Transcript

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Hello, my name is Nishi Gupta. And I am working as deputy medical director and head department of otorhinolaryngology at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye and ENT Hospital, New Delhi, India. My area of interest include endoscopic lacrimal, orbit, and sinus diseases. And these are some of the books that we have published on endoscopic lacrimal and orbital work.

This is a video of an endoscopic balloon dacryoplasty in congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Balloon dacryoplasty is a minimally invasive technique for treating various conditions of lacrimal drainage system. It is useful in selective cases of congenital nasal obstruction that include older children, children with failed previous probing, and syndromic association of CNLDO.

Balloon dacryoplasty in CNLDO leads to circumferential dilatation of the nasolacrimal duct. This is the left nasal cavity with inferior duct in it, and this is the membrane covering the rest of the nasolacrimal duct that can be seen dilated with the balloon.

Cardiac balloons are available under a variety of brand names like Sapphire, Boston Scientific, SPLANO Cardiomac. Items needed for this procedure are guidewire, balloon, inflation device, syringe, with saline and fluorescein dye, puncture dilator, and Bowman’s probe.