title: [The results of the surgical treatment of otosclerosis in the elderly subjects].
abstract: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the surgical treatment of otosclerosis in the subjects of advanced age. The medical histories of 19 patients aged above 65 years (20 ears) presenting with otosclerosis were available for the retrospective analysis. All of them had undergone surgical interventions (a total of 22 ones or 4.49% of the 489 operations performed between 2001 and 2012). The audiometric assessment was made at four wavelengths (0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz). Primary surgery (n=18) was preceded by the determination of the high air and bone conductivity thresholds (76.18 dB and 42.15 dB respectively), with the mean bone to air interval (BAI) being 33.99 dB. The surgical treatment resulted in the improvement of hearing; in 83.33% of the cases, BAI was reduced to 10 dB or below this value. It is concluded that the surgical intervention on the stirrup bone for the treatment of otosclerosis in the patients above 65 years of age is a safe and efficacious method despite marked hearing impairment in this group of patients.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Kulakova
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Poliakova
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Bodrova
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Lopatin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia; D013199:Stapes / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013201:Stapes Surgery / Q000379:methods / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016896:Treatment Outcome