The surgical procedure "closing the opening" (defect or perforation) on the nasal septum using a silicone prosthesis was performed for the first time in Montenegro.
This is the success of the Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), it was announced from that health institution.
"It is a minimally invasive procedure during which an obturator nasal prosthesis is placed, which completely closes the existing defect, which leads to the elimination of the patient's complaints," the announcement says.
It is stated that classical surgical methods are much more complicated with a low percentage of success, especially when dealing with a large defect.
"Compared to classic methods, the new intervention takes significantly less time, the postoperative recovery is faster, and the patient feels improvement very quickly after the intervention," says the KCCG.
It has been reported that a nasal septum defect can occur for various reasons. The patient, who was successfully operated on, is 22 years old, and the nasal septum defect occurred in childhood as a result of the presence of a foreign body in the nose.
In the period after the operation, the patient is regularly monitored and states that she no longer has the disturbances she had before this surgical procedure.
The intervention was successfully performed by doctor Elvir Zvrko, and the team members were anesthesiologist Ljubica Pejakov, instrument technicians Tatjana Kasalica and Saša Radusinović, as well as anesthetist Sanja Kočan.
The acting director of the ENT Clinic, Slavica Đurović, pointed out that this is the beginning of the implementation of a new method of treating nasal septal defect.
"After KCCG ranked among the ten institutions in Europe where mini-invasive video-assisted cardiac surgery is performed, which should become a standard procedure in the coming years, the most complex bladder augmentation operations in the field of pediatric urology were performed for the first time, this is another in a series of minimal of invasive methods of surgical treatment, which is successfully introduced in our institution," the announcement says.
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