Zixuan Zhao, Yuqi Zhang, Xinyi Xue, Yuqi Feng, Margaret Sibeso Kamuwanga, Xi Wang, Xiaoyong Ren, Baojun Wu, Yang Li
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Abstract
Objective: To describe the surgical steps in endoscopic malleostapedotomy as a primary intervention and to evaluate the audiologic and surgical outcomes.
Study design: Clinical capsule report.
Setting: University hospital.
Patients: Fourteen patients (10 males and 4 females) who underwent endoscopic malleostapedotomy as a primary intervention between April 2017 and July 2023 were enrolled in this study. Demographic data, surgical information, preoperative and postoperative pure-tone averages and air bone gaps, intraoperative and postoperative complications, and follow-up data were summarized and gathered in a database for further consideration and analysis.
Results: During endoscopic ear surgery, congenital ossicular chain malformation was present in 13 cases and tympanosclerosis in 1 case. The postoperative air-bone gap improved significantly compared with the preoperative gap (18.4 versus 47.4 dB HL, respectively), and the mean air-bone gap closure was 29 dB HL. In 14% of cases, the observed postoperative air-bone gap was less than 10 dB HL, and in 64%, it was between 11 and 20 dB HL. An ABG closure lower than 20 dB HL was achieved in a total of 78% of patients. There was no sensorineural hearing loss or persistent vertigo in the study sample. Two cases of prosthesis too short or prosthesis extrusion occurred after a mean follow-up of 16.9 months.
Conclusions: Endoscopic malleostapedotomy as a primary intervention is a safe and reliable procedure and is a technique of choice in selected cases of stapes fixation with incus anomaly.
期刊介绍:
Otology & Neurotology publishes original articles relating to both clinical and basic science aspects of otology, neurotology, and cranial base surgery. As the foremost journal in its field, it has become the favored place for publishing the best of new science relating to the human ear and its diseases. The broadly international character of its contributing authors, editorial board, and readership provides the Journal its decidedly global perspective.