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Physicians at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Medical Center individualize the management of temporal bone spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks for each patient. Kareem O. Tawfik, MD, otology fellow, department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at UC Health, said that the process begins with establishing the diagnosis, which typically involves beta-2 transferrin testing

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Cochlear Implants and SSCD Among Surgical Specialties Superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD) is a condition that has been termed as such in medical literature for only 20 years. “It’s a radiographic diagnosis of a bone missing over part of the superior semicircular canal,” says Joseph Breen, MD, assistant professor of otolaryngology‒head and neck surgery, University

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Ravi N. Samy, MD, successfully implanted a cochlear implant (CI) in the right ear and an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the left ear of patient Jessica Toews, making her one of the few patients in the country to have both. The ABI was implanted with the CochlearTM Nucleus® 7, the first made-for-iPhone sound processor

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John Paul Giliberto, MD, calls his laryngology practice “a unique opportunity to improve the functions that make my patients human – restoring their voice so they can return to conversations with friends, improving their breathing so they play basketball with their children, or helping them swallow so they can enjoy a meal with their family.”

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“Promising” and “applicable to many procedures” are how David Hom, MD, FACS, describes the new methods that were taught at a joint Ethicon/University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UC Medical Center) “Soft Tissue Facial Plastic Surgery” course and lab in August 2016. According to Dr. Hom, who served as director of the program, the new methods

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At the beginning of the pediatric voice program at the University of Cincinnati (UC) Medical Center, “we were satisfied with successful airway reconstruction in our patients that allowed them to have some voice,” says Alessandro de Alarcon, MD, MPH, UC Health. Over the last 10 years, UC Medical Center has become concerned with assessing the

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“Head and neck cancer patients are uniquely different from other cancer patients. Head and neck cancer creates dysfunctions that they cannot hide. It affects how you breathe, speak or eat. Having any kind of cancer makes people very vulnerable and isolated, and head and neck cancers exacerbate that vulnerability,” says Yash Patil, MD, associate professor

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