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Science articlesPredicting the degree of hearing loss in ear-surgery in chronic otitis media
I. D. Dubinets (1)
(1) Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education South Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-4-39-44
ABSTRACT
The article provides a comprehensive method for predicting the degree of hearing loss in reconstructive and sanitizing otosurgery in patients with chronic otitis media using scoring system criteria, determining the degree of hearing loss: 1 point is given in case of absence or minor manifestation of the criterion, 2 points – for moderately severe criterion manifestation, 3 points – for significantly expressed criterion manifestation. The total score less or equal to 25 is evaluated as a favorable prognosis for preservation or improvement of auditory function in reconstructive and sanitizing otosurgery, and the total score above 25 points is evaluated as unfavorable prognosis, indicating socially significant hearing loss in the postoperative period of otosurgery in patients with chronic otitis media. The method for predicting the hearing loss degree is implemented before the planned otosurgery in a patient with chronic otitis media in both outpatient and inpatient conditions.
Publication date:
25.06.2017
Keywords:
hearing loss degree prediction, reconstructive and sanitizing otosurgery, chronic otitis media. For citation:
Dubinets I. D. Predicting the degree of hearing loss in ear-surgery in chronic otitis media. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2017;4:39–44. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-4-39-44