Transmastoid Occlusion Surgery for Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome Improves Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Measures and corrects cVEMP Thresholds and Amplitudes

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the pre- and postoperative clinical, audiological, vestibular, and patient-reported measures in patients undergoing transmastoid occlusion surgery for superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS).

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case review.

SETTING: Tertiary referral centre, UK.

PATIENTS: All primary transmastoid occlusion surgeries for SCDS were included (tertiary centre, single-surgeon), January 2008 to July 2019.

INTERVENTIONS: Transmastoid superior canal occlusion surgery for SCDS.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: We collated audiological (pure tone audiogram), vestibular (cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials [cVEMPs]), and patient-reported outcome measures (Dizziness Handicap Inventory and subjective symptom grading).

RESULTS: Fifty-two patients (55 ears) met the inclusion criteria. Thirty-one (56%) were female. Mean age was 47 years (range 29-63) and mean follow-up of 11.2 months. Six patients had bilateral disease, four of whom underwent sequential, bilateral surgery.Autophony was the most frequent presenting symptom, improving in 92%.Significant improvements were self-reported in patients' autophony (p < 0.0001), pressure- and noise-induced dizziness (p < 0.0001 and p < 0.0001), aural fullness (p = 0.0159), pulsatile tinnitus (p < 0.0001), perceived hearing loss (p = 0.0058), and imbalance (p = 0.0303).Overall Dizziness Handicap Inventory scores reduced from 45.9 to 27.4 (p < 0.0001), and across all subgroups of functional (p = 0.0003), emotional (p < 0.0001), and physical handicap (p = 0.0005).A 6.4-dB HL improvement in the air-bone gap (500-1000 Hz) occurred (95% confidence intervals 3.3-9.4 dB HL, p < 0.0001). There were no dead ears. cVEMP thresholds, when recordable, normalized in all except two ears.

CONCLUSIONS: Transmastoid occlusion is effective at improving patient-reported outcomes and normalizing cVEMP thresholds, though some symptoms, notably disequilibrium, persist to a variable degree.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

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Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology - 42(2021), 10 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 1534-1543

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

de Wolf, Maarten J F [VerfasserIn]
Dawe, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Jervis, Suzanne [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Raghu [VerfasserIn]
Dalton, C Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Lindley, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Irving, Richard [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 09.03.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/MAO.0000000000003329

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NLM329633953