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Rush offers surgical treatments for several types of eustachian tube dysfunction, including chronic ear infection, patulous eustachian tube and cholesteatoma.
Johns Hopkins head and neck surgeons perform new surgical technique offering viable alternative to tympanostomy tubes — Eustachian tuboplasty.
Chronic ETD may require surgery. The goal of this treatment is to bypass your eustachian tubes and address ventilation problems in your middle ears. This restores hearing issues and other symptoms. Surgical options for eustachian tube dysfunction include: Myringotomy.
In the past, individuals with ETD were treated primarily with repeated ear tubes. However, a new minimally invasive surgical technique uses a balloon to dilate this important passageway and remodel the cartilage, allowing patients to have longer, more effective relief.
The Johns Hopkins Eustachian Tube Health Center provides comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis and management of Eustachian tube dysfunction that include medical, multidisciplinary and surgical approaches.
Surgical Treatment for Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. If medical treatment fails or symptoms recur, surgery of the eustachian tube may be indicated. Placement of a pressure equalization tube (PET) in the eardrum (myringotomy and PET placement).
Balloon dilation is a new surgical technique for the management of specific types of Eustachian tube problems. This technique was approved by the FDA in 2017 and is widely recognized by insurance companies in January 2021. This procedure is an alternative to tympanostomy tubes (ear tubes).
Procedures to treat your eustachian tubes include: Tympanostomy (ear tubes): Your surgeon places ear tubes into your eardrums and does a myringotomy. Eustachian tuboplasty (eustachian tube balloon dilation): This treatment involves expanding your eustachian tubes with a balloon. A note from Cleveland Clinic
Ear tube surgery is surgery to place a tube in one or both ears. Otitis media with effusion (OME), a type of middle ear infection where fluid accumulates behind the eardrum, can cause intense...
The traditional surgery involves placing a tympanostomy tube in the patient’s tympanic membrane; the new procedure uses the Acclarent AERA® Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation System, in which a balloon catheter is placed into the eustachian tube through its opening in the nasopharynx under direct visualization with a nasal telescope.