The video below presents my experience implanting cochlear implants and guiding patients from hearing loss to restored sound. It features a patient who participated in an early clinical trial for hybrid electroacoustic stimulation, followed by a detailed explanation of surgical techniques for Cochlear® Nucleus® devices. The electrode series 1012, 1022, and 1032 represent the current configurations associated with the NEXA™ system, illustrating the refinement of electrode desi

Whether or not to surgically treat SSCD syndrome is a decision made jointly with the patient and the surgeon.  Many of the symptoms can be mild and tolerable.  There are however, individual cases where the symptoms are disabling and surgery is warranted.  Some patients can be treated with a minimally invasive technique which we have developed to minimize the manipulation of the temporal lobe of the brain.  Please watch the video below.  Others require a minimal cranial openin

Dr. Fishman along with his colleague Dr. Arnaldo Rivera at the University of Missouri Medical Center have organized an annual cranial base surgical anatomy course with the use of high resolution 3D video demonstrations and cadaver dissections.  This course is designed to train new surgeons in the advanced techniques of cranial base surgery and skull base anatomy. It has been in operation since 2015.

Join Andrew Fishman, MD, Otolaryngologist/ Neurotologist, Kevin Hulett, MD, Otolaryngologist and Lauren O’Flaherty, AuD, CCC-A, Doctor of Audiology, to learn more about the latest treatment options for hearing loss.  There are many causes of hearing loss, but the results are the same. The most obvious problem is communication difficulties, but relationships and independence are also affected. People with hearing loss have difficulty communicating in noisy situations, in large

Publication: Fishman AJ , The Expanded Transtemporal Approach for Large CPA Lesions in Master Techniques in Otology Neurotology Roland JT [Ed.] Wolters Kluwer 2019. INTRODUCTION The expanded transtemporal approach is intended to address large cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesions. It is a non–hearing preservation approach, indicated for surgical treatment of tumors in which total or near-total surgical extirpation is the primary objective. This operation can be conceptualized

Surgical Options for Meniere’s Disease While most patients with Meniere’s Disease in our practice benefit from non-invasive therapies including dietary changes and anti inflammatory therapies, there are a number of those who are not adequately controlled by these conservative measures.  When this is the case, we offer a variety of surgical treatment options which have a high rate of success in eliminating the major disabling symptoms of Meniere’s Disease and offer long term b