Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation

Precautions to Take Before Surgery:

1. Medication: Ensure to take all prescribed medications as directed by the ENT surgeon until the night before the surgery. It’s important to bring along all prescribed and over-the-counter medications in their original packaging.

2. Fasting: Refrain from consuming any food or drink from midnight onwards on the day of the surgery. This fasting period is essential for the procedure.

3. Hospital File: Bring the hospital file containing necessary documents such as the major surgical profile, audiological evaluation reports, pre-anesthetic check-up sheet, and radiological investigation films and reports (X-ray, CT scan, MRI, PET scan, etc.). Prepare this file a day prior to the surgery.

1. Medication: Take all prescribed medications as directed by the surgeon after discharge. If any prescribed medications cause adverse reactions such as rashes or stomach upset, contact the doctor immediately.

Post-operative follow-up visits with the operating surgeon can be scheduled as follows:

1. 7 days after surgery (1st visit)
2. Every 10 days in the first month after the initial visit (2nd & 3rd visits)

Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation procedure has been very effective globally in treating ETD. The same has been established through many peer reviewed studies and is approved by the US FDA.

Some key statistics are below –

• Great improvement in quality of life
• Improvement in tympanogram measurements of middle ear pressure
• 99% of patients were free from retractions of tympanic membrane after the procedure
• In the long term, 87% of the patients showed persistent improvement in symptoms at 34 months follow-up