effect of replacing the diseased small bones in the ear with bow shaped cartilage from ear on hearing
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- chronic suppurative otitis media- atticoantral disease
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Adult patients with chronic otitis media undergoing type III tympanoplasty who are diagnosed to be having an absence of the stapes supra-structure during surgery will be considered for this procedure.
Exclusion Criteria
1.Patients in whom stapes footplate is fixed or obliterated
2.Patients in whom facial nerve is dehiscent and bulging over the stapes footplate.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hearing loss in decibels at 250, 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000 Hz preoperatively and postoperatively at 12 weeksTimepoint: 12 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method incidence of intraoperative and postoperative complicationsTimepoint: 12 weeks