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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED OTOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 228-233Publisher
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DOI: 10.5152/iao.2021.8457
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Congenital stapes fixation; cochlear hypoplasia; congenital hearing loss; inner ear malformations; stapedotomy
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The study reviewed 42 cases of cochlear hypoplasia (CH) with stapedotomy, showing improved postoperative hearing and proposing a new management guideline for CH.
OBJECTIVES:To introduce the concept of stapedotomy as a new treatment alternative in cochlear hypoplasia (CH) and propose a new guideline for its management. METHODS: Forty-two primary cases out of 355 presented with congenital stapes fixation between January 2003 and September 2015 were included in the study. Computed tomography scans of all cases with congenital stapes fixation were reviewed, and cases with inner ear anomalies were taken into account. Eleven cases had various inner ear anomalies, and 9 cases had various types of CH. In the present paper, only the CH cases with stapes fixation, all of whom underwent stapedotomy, are reviewed regarding preoperative audiological and radiological characteristics as well as surgical findings and postoperative audiological results. RESULTS: The patients were aged between 4 and 22. There were 2 males (3 ears) and 4 females (6 ears). Three cases had bilateral stapedotomy. The remaining 3 cases had unilateral surgery. The average preoperative air-bone gap (ABG) was 50.3 dB. Postoperative hearing: preoperative ABG was 503 dB. Postoperative ABG was calculated as 20.1 dB hearing. CONCLUSION: Hearing loss (HL) in hypoplastic cochlea demonstrates the full spectrum of HL types. CH is a unique inner ear anomaly that can be treated with all of the available rehabilitation modalities. As a result of current findings, a new treatment algorithm for CH is proposed.
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