The UPMC Ear and Hearing Center offers numerous surgical options to treat your hearing or ear condition.
Please contact us at 412-647-4327 or 412-621-0123 for more information and to schedule an appointment to discuss what treatment options are best for you.
Depending on your hearing status and the size and location of the acoustic neuroma tumor, your doctor will select one of the following ear surgery methods to remove the acoustic neuroma:
A cochlear implant is a surgically-implanted electronic device that helps provide sound to people with severe hearing loss. This severe type of hearing loss is usually caused by damage or a defect in the inner ear.
Cochlear implants bypass damaged hair cells in the inner ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve to send information to the brain.
Surgical repair for people who were born without certain parts of their ear's anatomy, including the:
CyberKnife radiosurgery is a technique to treat ear and hearing disorders that are related to brain conditions.
It uses a highly focused beam of radiation to target specific areas of the brain. Since the beam of radiation destroys the tissue that a surgeon would remove with a scalpel during an operation, no actual cutting is involved in the procedure.
A transmastoid surgical procedure that removes remaining inner ear balance function from the diseased ear causing vertigo and disequilibrium.
A surgical procedure to open the eardrum and remove fluid from the middle ear. Sometimes the surgeon inserts a small tube in the middle of the ear to maintain drainage.
This surgery for otitis media is most often performed on children, but is sometimes performed on adults.
Using lasers with micro-millimeter spot size and accuracy, surgeons can perform extremely delicate ear procedures — minimizing trauma to the inner ear, compared to other surgical techniques.
This procedure surgically places a bone anchored hearing aid (baha) to the skull to transmit sound through the bone to the inner ear.
This implant allows sound to bypass the external auditory canal and middle ear.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is caused by minute calcium crystals floating freely in the inner ear.
This therapeutic maneuver redirects the particles back in the part of the inner ear where they belong.
Surgeons use this procedure to treat otosclerosis, in which they remove the stapes bone and replace it with a prosthesis.
Hearing may improve right away, however, some bleeding behind the eardrum may keep hearing reduced. You should notice significant improvement in hearing within 10 to 14 days after surgery.
Surgery on the eardrum and/or middle ear bones to restore the middle ear hearing mechanism.
To make an appointment with one of our doctors or learn more about us, contact University Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialists at:
University Ear, Nose, & Throat Specialists (Oakland)
Eye & Ear Institute
203 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-647-4327
University Ear, Nose, & Throat Specialists
Shadyside Medical Building
5200 Centre Ave., Suit 102
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-621-0123
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