Otolaryngology is the medical specialty that deals with the pathologies related to the nose, throat, ear and neck. There are many diseases that this specialty covers, both in the adult and in the pediatric age.

The Otorhinolaryngology service of Clínica Premium has a highly qualified team and the most advanced technology to perform the different medical-surgical assistance diseases coming from the ear, nose, throat and neck. It has the main audiological and endoscopic diagnostic tests that have proven useful in ENT exploration. On the other hand, surgical equipment ranges from radiofrequency to minimally invasive surgery with the laser diode, lacrimal surgery, somnoplasty, endoscopic nasal and sinus surgery, otomicroscopy, etc. Overall, it has the latest advances in ENT required in the patients’ treatments.

COMMON DISEASES IN THIS SPECIALTY

  • Otitis: pain, itching or suppuration of the ear
  • Deafness of the child and adult
  • Vertigo, dizziness: Noises in the ears (tinnitus)
  • Difficulty breathing through the nose, excessive nasal mucus
  • Deviated septum
  • Nose bleeding
  • Nasal polyp
  • Headaches
  • A sore throat
  • Difficulty swallowing or breathing
  • Hoarse voice, aphonias
  • Discomfort or pain in the neck
  • Night snoring, sleep apnea
  • Loss of smell
  • Pharyngolaryngeal tumours, etc.

CLÍNICAL EXAMINATION TECHNIQUES

  • Microscopic examination, direct microlaryngoscopy (DML)
  • Video and Fiber Naso-Pharyngo-Laryngoscope
  • Video rigid laryngeal endoscopy
  • Liminal pure-tone audiometry
  • Supraliminal audiometry, speech audiometry
  • Tympanometry
  • Study of stapedial reflexes
  • Otoacoustic emissions
  • Full vestibular examination

SURGICAL TECHNIQUES

  • Nasal surgery (functional and aesthetic, septoplasty and rhinoseptoplasty)
  • Surgical treatments of voice disorders (vocal cord polyps, oedema, intracordal cysts, vocal cord paralysis, laryngeal microsurgery)
  • Pediatric surgery (tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, transtympanic ventilation tubes)
  • Ear surgery (otosclerosis, stapedectomy, chronic otitis, tympanoplasties, transtympanic drains)
  • Endoscopic nasal sinus surgery (nasal obstruction, nasal polyps, sinusitis)
  • Lacrimal duct surgery with the diode laser (outpatient dacryocystorhinostomy)
  • Somnoplasty (Palate hypertrophy, turbinate hypertrophy with radiofrequency and/or laser, partial resection of the palate, uvulopalatoplasty, turbinoplasty)
  • Surgical oncology (laryngeal cancer, cervical cancer, conventional surgery and with carbon dioxide laser or diode laser)

OUR PROFESSIONALS IN OTORHINOLARINGOLOGY

  • Dr. Maximiliano Alea
  • Dr. Jean Paul Loaiza
  • Dra. Elena Monje
  • Dr. Andrés Robin Reyes Eldblom