title: Hearing recovery following large and small fenestra stapes surgery for otosclerosis.
abstract: Fifty-five ear of 49 patients with otosclerosis were operated on with either large fenestra stapes (stapedectomy; SDE) or small fenestra stapes (stapedectomy; STO) surgery. Pre-operative average hearing levels for the speech frequency ranges (0.5, 1, 2 kHz) were 56.1 dBHL for SDE and 61.0 dBHL for STO. These improved to 39.0 dBHL and 35.0 dBHL. Statistically, significant hearing recovery was obtained for a frequency range from 0.125 to 2 kHz for SDE and from 0.125 to 4 kHz for STO (p < 0.05, Dunnett's multiple variance test). The degree of post-operative hearing improvement for STO was significantly higher at 0.5, 2 and 8 kHz than that for SDE (p < 0.05, Student's t-test). A pre-operative speech discrimination score of 80% was obtained at 68.9 dB for SDE and at 76.0 dB for STO. These values improved to 56.1 dB and 49.5 dB post-operatively. Thus, it was proved that STO results in better hearing than SDE does.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Naramura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiraishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsunaga
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009998:Ossicular Prosthesis; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012086:Reoperation; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013201:Stapes Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors