Medical Minute: Options Improve To Help With Plugged Ear Passageways
Frequent flyers probably know the feeling of plugged ears — for those experiencing ear pain, the options to help have now improved.
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Passageways from your middle ears into your throat, called the eustachian tubes, can become blocked, causing problems like infections or pain and muffled hearing with airplane landings. Tune in to this medical minute to learn about a new way some Ear, Nose and Throat surgeons are treating this problem — and it doesn’t involve tubes in your ears!
For more information:
- Businco et al. Eustachian tuboplasty and shrinkage of ostial mucosa with new devices : Including a proposal of a classification system. HNO. 2017 Mar 30.
- Kim et al. Fluoroscopy-guided balloon dilation in patients with Eustachian tube dysfunction. European Radiology. 2017 Sep 27.
- Poe et al. Balloon dilation of the eustachian tube for dilatory dysfunction: A randomized controlled trial. Laryngoscope. 2017 Sep 20.
This segment originally aired on Oct. 12, 2017.
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