Comprehensive Surgical Ear Specialists
The Otology, Neurotology, and Lateral Skull Base Program at UTHealth Houston provides comprehensive medical and surgical care for complex ear disorders. Our highly skilled team of physicians uses advanced therapies and treatment for eardrum perforations and pain, cholesteatoma, otosclerosis, vertigo, tinnitus, facial nerve problems, and lateral skull base tumors. Our experts perform open or endoscopic procedures with the highest level of care. UTHealth Houston is committed to providing you the best treatment options for your specific condition.
Scope of Expertise
- BAHA (Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids) and implantable hearing aids
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks to ear and mastoid cavity
- Cholesteatoma (skin cysts)
- Chronic ear infections
- Cochlear implants
- Conductive or sensorineural hearing loss
- Encephalocele
- Eustachian tube dysfunction
- Facial nerve paralysis
- Hearing loss
- Ménière’s Disease
- Middle ear tumors
- Skull base tumors (acoustic neuroma/vestibular schwannoma, facial nerve schwannoma, glomus, meningoma, epidermoid cysts)
- Otoplasty
- Otosclerosis disease
- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome
- Temporal bone fractures
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ear)
- Tympanic membrane perforations
- Vertigo (dizziness)
Evaluation and Treatment
Our otolaryngologists provide diagnostic and evaluation services using the latest technology to help you choose the best treatment options, including state-of-the-art medical therapy and surgery using minimally invasive techniques whenever possible.
Meet the Physicians
Vivian F. Kaul
Vivian Kaul, MD, serves as an assistant professor in otology, neurotology and lateral skull base in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. She is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, the American Neurotology Society, the Triological Society, and the North American Skull Base Society. Kaul also serves as a peer-reviewer for leading journals like the Laryngoscope, JAMA-Otolaryngology, and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She has also co-authored numerous articles published in these journals. In addition, she has given national and international talks on these clinical and research interests.
UT Physicians Otorhinolaryngology - Texas Medical Center
Houston, TX, 77030-1539
Sancak Yuksel, MD
UT Physicians Otorhinolaryngology - Texas Medical Center
Houston, TX, 77030-1539
