Otology and Audiology Unit.

This Unit is organizad in 2 sections who take care of the diagnosis and treatment of ear pathology, the organ of balance and audition.

• It performs the diagnosis of hearing loss in children and adults by usual tests such as Audiometry and Tympanometry, as well as more specific tests such as Auditory Brainstem Response and Audiometric Steady-State Response.
• It is specialized in the Diagnosis and treatment of Tinnitus, offering the newest protocols, with personalized therapies and a multidisciplinary approach.
• Medical treatment and postural rehabilitation for patients with vertigo.
• Hearing aid advice.

The Otologic and Neuro-otologic Microsurgery Section deals with the surgical treatment of the Audiologic Pathology.

• By means of different Otologic Microsurgery techniques, it performs Stapedectomies, Middle Ear prostheses insertion, Osseointegrated Implants, Cochlear Implants…for hearing loss treatment.
  
• Reconstructive Microsurgery of Chronic Otitis, tympanic perforations, cholesteatoma…by means of Tympanoplasty, Miringoplasty, insertion of grommets (ventilation tubes).
• Otoneurosurgery Techniques for Skull Base and Ponto-cerebellar angle tumors approach, having a wide experience in the surgical treatment of the Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma).
• Surgical Treatment of vertigo by intratympanic therapy and labyrynthectomy.