title: Long-Term Hearing Results After Ossiculoplasty.
abstract: To determine if the OOPS index is predictive of long-term hearing results after ossiculoplasty.
  
  
  
  Case series with retrospective chart review.
  
  
  
  Tertiary care otology practice.
  
  
  
  Adult and pediatric patients (3-88 years of age).
  
  
  
  Ossiculoplasty with cartilage tympanoplasty, with or without mastoidectomy.
  
  
  
  Primary outcome measures included short-term hearing results (pure-tone average air-bone gap [PTA-ABG] measured between 60 days and 1 year after surgery), long-term hearing results (PTA-ABG measured ≥5 years after surgery), and the rate of successful ABG closure to ≤20 dB. Secondary measures included the need for revision surgery, delayed tympanic membrane graft failure, worsening conductive hearing loss (after an initially satisfactory hearing result), and recurrence of cholesteatoma.
  
  
  
  There was no significant difference between adults and children for short-term hearing results (average post-op PTA-ABG was 18.9 dB vs. 19.8 dB, respectively; p = 0.544), long-term hearing results (average final PTA-ABG was 19.3 dB vs. 19.4 dB, respectively; p = 0.922), or rate of ABG closure to less than 20 dB (63.1% vs. 58.0%, p = 0.282). Spearman's rank-order correlation (ρ) identified a strong positive correlation between OOPS index score and average post-operative PTA-ABG (ρ = 0.983; p < 0.001; 2-tailed), as well as average long-term PTA-ABG (ρ = 0.950, p < 0.001; 2-tailed).
  
  
  
  The OOPS index makes it possible to accurately prognosticate hearing outcomes in adult and pediatric patients undergoing ossiculoplasty in both the short term and the long term.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Division of Otology & Neurotology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas.
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trinidade
authors.forename: James Shep
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dornhoffer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019933:Ossicular Replacement / Q000379:methods*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult