OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To prospectively evaluate hearing outcomes in children with otosclerosis undergoing primary stapes surgery. STUDY DESIGN A nonrandomized, nonblinded, prospective case series. METHODS Thirty-four consecutive pediatric patients who underwent 41 primary stapedotomies for otosclerosis in a tertiary referral center were included. Patients were included when there was eviden...

UNLABELLED Stapes surgery is one of the approaches indicated to treat conductive hearing loss secondary to otosclerosis. The procedures requires skill and experience from the surgeon and is part of medical residency training. AIMS To assess which type of prosthesis (Teflon or metal/steel) presents the best results in surgeries performed by residents and the incidence of complications. MATER...

This paper presents the results of non-contact measurements of the human ear round window (RW) membrane motion in freshly harvested human cadaver temporal bone specimens. A PSV 400 Scanning Laser Vibrometer system (Polytec, Waldbronn, Germany) was used to determine the effect of stapedotomy on the sound-induced displacement amplitude of the RW membrane. The vibration patterns were measured in t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate with a new otologic database the results of primary stapes surgery for otosclerosis with up to 14 years of follow-up in a consecutive series of 2,525 patients operated on by the same surgeon with the same technique (stapedotomy and vein graft interposition) and to provide online access to the complete data of this study for the reviewers. To study the effect of specific op...

Background/Aim: Surgery for tympanosclerosis with stapes fixation hearing reconstruction is controversial, many reports in the relevant literature advocate opposing suggestions. The primary aims were to evaluate improvement varied techniques performed fixation. Methods: Patients and fixation, whose impairment was re-constructed surgically who followed 1-5 years reviewed this retrospective cohor...

HYPOTHESIS Ossiculoplasty using prosthetic reconstruction with a malleus assembly to the stapes head will result in better transmission of vibrations from the eardrum to the stapes footplate than reconstruction with a tympanic membrane assembly to the stapes head. Both types of reconstruction will be affected by tension of the prosthesis. BACKGROUND Theories (and some clinical studies) that t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of piston diameter in primary stapedotomy for otosclerosis patients measured by hearing outcome. DATA SOURCES PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library. REVIEW METHODS A systematic search was conducted. Studies reporting original data on the effect of piston diameter on pure-tone audiometric results in patients undergoing primary stapedotomy for otosclerosis ...

Keypoints * The successful use of glass-ionomeric cement in primary stapes surgery for attachment of the wire loop of the stapes prosthesis to the long process of the incus is reported. * Early hearing outcomes were similar in patients where cement was used for stapes prosthesis attachment compared with those with standard wire crimping technique. * Use of glass-ionomeric cement to attach the s...

Introduction Otosclerosis is a disease that causes bone resorption and deposition in the auditory structures, leading to deafness. Many studies have evaluated the histopathology of the stapes footplate in this disease (osteoblasts, osteoclasts, vascular proliferation, fibroblasts, and histiocytes), but we found no studies in the literature involving the histology of the superstructure of the st...

OBJECTIVE To study the success results rates and complications of stapedotomy compared to stapedectomy in the operative management of otosclerosis. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 50 patients who were treated surgically for otosclerosis. The medical records of these patients were reviewed for the type of operation performed, complications and the serial pure tune audiometries pre- an...