Rande Lazar, MD, is an experienced, ear, nose, and throat physician who offers pediatric care at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Emphasizing the latest technologies, Rande Lazar, MD, emphasizes sinus surgery as a way of treating throat and ear infections. He also performs balloon sinuplasty in treating sinus problems.

1. Balloon Sinuplasty - Safe, Effective
Treatment of Sinus Blockage
By Rande Lazar MD

2. Introduction
• Rande Lazar, MD, is an experienced, ear, nose, and
throat physician who offers pediatric care at LeBonheur
Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee.
Emphasizing the latest technologies, Rande Lazar, MD,
emphasizes sinus surgery as a way of treating throat and
ear infections. He also performs balloon sinuplasty in
treating sinus problems.
In contrast with traditional sinus surgery, balloon
sinuplasty requires no cutting or bone or tissue removal.
The procedure involves use of a tiny flexible balloon
catheter in opening up sinus passageways that have
become blocked.

3. Balloon Sinuplasty
• After the catheter balloon is inserted it is
expanded within the inflamed sinus to widen the
opening. The sinus lining integrity is maintained
while the passageway remains expanded. The
physician then flushes out mucus and pus with a
sprayed sinus solution. When the balloon is
removed, the sinus stays open. This allows the
proper drainage of nasal mucus for patients who
experience chronic sinusitis.