Rare Hearing Disorders and Hearing Implantation Center

Rare hearing disorders and hearing implantation center in VUH SK provides highly specialized diagnostic interventions such as:

• Pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, free field audiometry (vision reinforcement audiometry, play audiometry, screening for the effectiveness of rehabilitated hearing)
• Tympanometry 
• Otoacoustic emissions (OAE), Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA), Auditory Steady State Response (ASSR)
• Otomicroscopy
• Sonotubometry, videoendoscopy
• Temporal bone Computed Tomography, Magnetic resonance imaging

Additional tests

• Development assessment
• Neurological examination 
• Genetic testing

Examination of the vestibular system

• Examination of vestibular reflexes 
• Videonystagmometry
• Computed posturography
• Rotational chair testing

Surgical procedures in VUH SK

• Simultaneous/sequential unilateral/bilateral cochlear implantation
• Implantation of hearing systems (BONEBRIDGE, VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE, BAHA, BAHA Attract),
• Tympanoplasty,
• Ossiculoplasty using titanium prosthesis  or autologous ossiculoplasty 
• Stapedotomy
• Surgical management of cholesteatoma (canal-wall-down mastoidectomy, canal-wall-up mastoidectomy, reconstruction mastoidectomy),  
• Reconstruction of the external auditory canal (meatoplasty) in cases stenosis, removal of exostosis of the external auditory canal,
• Ear tumor removal surgery,
• Laser Eustachian tuboplasty, open Eustachian tube correction surgery,
• Tympanotomy and tympanostomy,