title: Cartilage ossiculoplasty in cholesteatoma surgery: hearing results and prognostic factors.
abstract: Cartilage tympanoplasty is an established procedure for tympanic membrane and attic reconstruction. Cartilage has been used as an ossiculoplasty material for many years. The aim of this study was to evaluate hearing results of costal cartilage prostheses in ossicular chain reconstruction procedures in subjects operated on for middle ear cholesteatoma and to determine the presence of prognostic factors. Candidates for this study were patients affected by middle ear cholesteatoma whose ossicular chain was reconstructed with a chondroprosthesis. 67 cases of ossiculoplasty with total (TORP) or partial (PORP) chondroprosthesis were performed between January 2011 and December 2013. Follow-up examination included micro-otoscopy and pure tone audiometry. The guidelines of the Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery were followed and pure-tone average (PTA) was calculated as the mean of 0.5, 1, 2 and 4 kHz thresholds. Statistical analysis was performed with ANOVA tests and regression models. Average air-bone gap (ABG) significantly improved from 39.2 dB HL (SD 9.1 dB HL) to 25.4 dB HL (SD 11 dB HL) (p < 0.001). Linear regression analysis showed that the only prognostic factor was the type of operation (p = 0.02). In fact, patients submitted to ICWT presented better post-operative ABG compared to CWDT. None of the other variables influenced the results. The present study proposes costal cartilage as material of choice when autologous ossicles are not available. The maintenance of the posterior canal wall was the only prognostic factor identified.
authors.affiliation: UOC Otorinolaringoiatria Universitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Quaranta
authors.affiliation: UOC Otorinolaringoiatria Universitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taliente
authors.affiliation: UOC Otorinolaringoiatria Universitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Coppola
authors.affiliation: UOC Otorinolaringoiatria Universitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Salonna
mesh_terms: D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002356:Cartilage; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D009998:Ossicular Prosthesis; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Cholesteatoma; Ossicular Prosthesis; Ossiculoplasty; Surgery
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