title: Long-term hearing results of incus transposition.
abstract: Incus transposition is an option for reconstructing an ossicular discontinuity. We looked at the long-term outcome (average 9.2 years) in terms of hearing results in patients who had undergone incus transposition. Patients were requested to attend for a pure tone audiogram. Details of their preoperative audiograms were obtained from the patients' case notes. A postoperative air-bone gap of 20 dB or less averaged over four frequencies (0.5, 1, 2, 4 kHz) was considered to be an acceptable result. We found that 70% of patients had an air-bone gap of 20 dB or less and 54% had had cholesteatoma surgery at the time of the incus transposition. This study represents the longest follow-up of patients having undergone incus transposition from our search of the literature. Incus transposition, we feel, offers good long-term hearing results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK. azhersiddiq@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Siddiq
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: East
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002648:Child; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007188:Incus / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013997:Time Factors; D014433:Tympanoplasty