Sunil Sharma

Consultant in Paediatric ENT

Alder Hey Children's Hospital, UK.

Latest Contribution

Surgery for snoring

1 September 2017 | | Sleep-disordered breathing, snoring surgery, functional expansion pharyngoplasty, osteotomy, septoplasty, somnoplasty

The prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing is rapidly increasing. There is variable evidence for surgical treatments for snoring currently. This Belgian study was a retrospective review of 84 patients who underwent surgery for snoring between May 2011 and December 2015. A...

Transnasal endoscopic repair of CSF leaks

1 July 2017 | | Anterior skull base, cerebrospinal fluid leak or fistula, CSF leak or fistula, intrathecal fluorescein, fascia lata

This Italian study was a retrospective review of 110 consecutive patients who underwent repair of their CSF leak via the transnasal endoscopic approach from 2003 to 2013. All surgery was performed by the same primary surgeon and patients with a...

A new biomarker for chronic rhinosinusitis

1 July 2017 | | Chronic rhinosinusitis, periostin, inflammation, remodelling

This Chinese study looked at the feasibility of periostin (usually found in bone and lung tissue) as a biomarker for chronic rhinosinusitis. They sampled ethmoid mucosa in 12 patients with chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis (CRSsNP) and 25 patients with...