Department of Otorhinolaryngology

Structure of the ENT Department

Outpatient section:

• The Department has two outpatient clinics:

  • Outpatient clinic No. 1 – admissions, acute and chronic care

  • Outpatient clinic No. 2 – consultation, audiometry and vestibular

Inpatient section:

• Currently, 4 rooms are available with a total of 12 beds

Surgical activity:

• The Department has three operating days per week:

  • 2 days for the ENT department

  • 1 day shared with oral and maxillofacial surgery

Surgical procedures are performed under general and local anesthesia and include:

• Endoscopic adenoidectomy, tonsillotomy, tonsillectomy

• Sleep surgery and diagnostics (DISE, UPP, UPPP)

• Rhinologic procedures: functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), DCRS, septoplasty, septorhinoplasty (in cooperation with a plastic surgeon)

• Oncologic surgery and microsurgery of the larynx

• Endoscopic removal of foreign bodies

• Middle ear surgery, benign and malignant skin tumors

• Salivary gland surgery, tracheostomy, injuries

• Oral and maxillofacial surgery procedures

Outpatient clinics:

• Vestibular outpatient clinic: MUDr. Motola

• Head of Department’s outpatient clinic: MUDr. Švarc Haninová

• Oncology outpatient clinic: MUDr. Korch

• Rhinology outpatient clinic / biologic therapy: MUDr. Michalenko

Care is intended for adult and pediatric patients and focuses primarily on diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of:

• voice disorders (dysphonia, aphonia) in voice professionals, oncology patients, patients after head and neck surgery, etc.

• swallowing disorders (dysphagia), especially in oncology patients (after oncologic surgery, after radiotherapy, after laryngectomy) and in neurological patients (after CMP, patients with neurodegenerative diseases, etc.)

As part of the diagnosis of swallowing disorders, we perform instrumental examinations FEES (Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing – swallowing examination with a flexible endoscope) and VFSS (Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study – videofluoroscopic swallowing examination).

The dysphagia team includes a speech therapist-dysphagiologist, an ENT physician, and a radiologist. We provide comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care within outpatient care as well as to hospitalized patients.

Patients referred by a general practitioner fall under the care of ENT physicians at the outpatient clinic (Klokočina, Chrenová, Špitálska).

We examine patients who are:

• patients referred by an ENT physician from the polyclinic for hospitalization or surgery,
• our patients after ENT surgery,
• consultation examinations of patients from other departments of FN Nitra, the Cardiocenter, Specialized Hospital Veľké Zálužie, Specialized Hospital Zobor, patients serving a prison sentence,
• oncology patients who are under follow-up with us,
• We prioritise examinations of:
  • acute conditions brought in by emergency medical services, bleeding, choking,
  • consultations from other healthcare facilities,
  • children and pregnant women,
  • patients with a tracheostomy

We ask patients to bring with them previous medical reports and results of imaging methods (CT, MRI exam, ultrasound and others) they have already undergone, a referral from the referring physician, and their health insurance card. Thank you.

Patients without a referral and without a queue number will not be examined.

The area code before the extension is 037 / 6545 + extension