Materials and method: One hundred and twenty patients who had undergone type 1 tympanoplasty using temporal fascia and tragal cartilage were retrospectively reviewed. Eighty seven patients underwent tympanoplasty using temporal fascia graft while in 33 patients, tragal cartilage with perichondrium was employed. Graft take up was analyzed at 6 weeks post-operatively, in both the groups. Pre-oper...

INTRODUCTION To describe the underlay tympanoplasty technique using an acellular dermal graft(AlloDerm) for tympanic membrane (TM) reconstruction in a guinea pig model and to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique using AlloDerm tissue harvested from the prepuce as a source of tissue for future grafting in human TM reconstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS The prepuce was divided during cir...

INTRODUCTION Cartilage graft tympanoplasty has a better success rate in the treatment of chronic otitis media if regularly prepared and placed. OBJECTIVE To prepare cartilage island material and evaluate its effect on the success rate of tympanoplasty. METHODS The medical records of 87 patients (48 males and 39 females; mean age, 27.3±11.2 years; range, 14-43 years) with chronic otitis medi...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> In chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), the success rate of tympanoplasty, can range from 35% to 92% and is influenced by a number factors such as age patient, size site perforation, status ear, ossicular surgical technique. The middle ear risk index (MERI) CSOM patient an effective numerical grading system helpful in predic...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to report early postoperative complications and hearing results in patients with chronic otitis media undergoing endoscopic transcanal tympanoplasty. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-four patients (6 males, 18 females; mean age 25.9 years; range 9 to 46 years) who were operated with endoscopic transcanal tympanoplasty in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of ...

OBJECTIVES In tympanoplasty operations if perforation is related with malleus handle, malleus handle is desepithelised. We planned this research to investigate whether the epithelial remnants remain as a result of this desepithelisation or not. METHODS The 35 patients who were performed tympanoplasty operation were divided into two groups. In the first group which included 13 patients the tip...

MRAM has received a great deal of attention in recent years for its potential to become a universal memory capable of nonvolatility, infinite cycleability, fast switching speeds, high density, and low cost. However, the limitations of conventional design architectures have made MRAM difficult to realize. In this work, a new annular currentperpendicular-to-plane (CPP) giant magnetoresistive (GMR...