Trans Canal Tympanoplasty With Local Anesthesia Using Fat Graft and "TachoSil"
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Sponsor
- HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
- Enrollment
- 20
- Primary Endpoint
- closure of tympanic membrane perforation
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
Eligible participants with chronic tympanic membrane perforation (>6 month) will be given a detailed description and offered to participate in the study.
the study investigates the efficacy of trans canal tympanoplasty with local anesthesia using fat pad and "Tachosil". Participants will be followed for 1 year after the procedure with otological examination and successive hearing evaluations.
Investigators
Yoni Evgeni Gutkovich
Doctor
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Chronic tympanic membrane perforation (\>6 months).
- •Central tympanic membrane perforation.
- •Air bone gar of 35 dB or lower at the operated ear.
- •No active otorrhea in the operated ear in the preceding 3 month prior to the procedure.
- •No evidence of a retraction pocket and no suspicion for a cholesteatoma.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Known ossicular chain dysfunction
- •The tympanic membrane perforation edges are not accessible/visualized transcanal
- •Pregnancy
- •Allergy to lidocaine
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
closure of tympanic membrane perforation
Time Frame: 1 year following the procedure
the effectiveness of the tympanoplasty using far graft and "Tachosil" will be evaluated - whether close of tympanic membrane perforation occured.
Secondary Outcomes
- Hearing results following tympanoplasty - Pure Tone Average(1 year following the procedure)
- Hearing results following tympanoplasty - Speech recognition threshold(1 year following the procedure)
- Hearing results following tympanoplasty - air bone gap.(1 year following the procedure)