Mount Sinai neurotologists (Drs. Schwam, Perez, Cosetti, Wanna) are consultants in endoscopic ear surgical procedure, a minimally invasive strategy that’s solely carried out in a small variety of facilities worldwide. Endoscopic ear surgical procedure affords the surgeon a greater view and the power to see round corners.
Stapedectomy is carried out for sufferers with otosclerosis. Otosclerosis sometimes causes a decrease frequency conductive listening to loss (though it could trigger blended or sensorineural listening to loss as properly) and is a bone transforming dysfunction that originally impacts the stapes footplate, impeding the transmission of sound from the air to the internal ear. Stapedectomy is a extremely efficient process with an extended historical past, and entails eradicating the stapes superstructure, drilling or lasering a small gap within the stapes footplate (making a fenestra, or stapedotomy), and putting a small prosthesis across the incus lengthy course of and into the stapedotomy, thereby restoring the continuity and mobility of the ossicular chain. For sufferers who’re poor candidates or who want to keep away from surgical procedure, a standard listening to assist can be efficient.
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https://www.mountsinai.org/areas/center-hearing-balance
The Mount Sinai Otolaryngology Surgical Video Collection was edited by Dr. Zachary Schwam.
