Otology/Neurotology/Skull Base Surgery Service
This subspecialty service manages diseases and disorders of hearing,
balance, cranial nerves, and the skull base. Drs. Gantz and Rubinstein
specialize in the management of neurosensory or inner ear hearing loss
(ie, profound deafness acquired and congenital, sudden hearing loss, immune
mediated hearing loss), chronic ear disease (ie, chronic infected ears,
cholesteatoma), conductive hearing loss (ie, ossicular discontinuity,
otosclerosis, tympanic membrane perforations, congenital anomalies), balance
disorders (ie, Meniere’s disease, vertigo, etc), facial nerve disorders
(ie, Bells palsy, traumatic injury, neuroma), tumors of the cranial nerves
(ie, acoustic neuroma, other nerve tumors). Our center has had extensive
experience with hearing preservation procedures for acoustic tumors.
A skull base team consisting of neurotologists, neurosurgeons, neurophthamologists,
and neuroradiologists manage large skull base disorders including neuromas,
clivus chordomas, petroclival meningiomas, and canvernous sinus tumors.
The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research
Center has been in the forefront of cochlear implant development and
clinical evaluation since 1980. The Center evaluates the latest cochlear
implant technology and is developing new strategies to improve speech
processing and speech perception. A state-of-the-art hearing aid center
has experience with digital hearing aids as well as other programmable
and conventional hearing aid models. Two new surgically implanted hearing
aids are undergoing evaluation at our Center. One device is a new bone
anchored hearing aid for conductive hearing loss and the other involves
placing an electromagnet on the incus for inner ear hearing loss.
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