Otosclerose: resultados de estapedotomias

Introduction: Otospongiosis or otosclerosis is a common degenerative and hereditary disease of the labyrinthine capsule and occurs mainly in women with age between 20 and 30 years. In recent decades stapedotomy has increasingly tended to become the most used surgical technique to the treatment of otosclerosis. Thus, this study analyzes the results of 59 stapedotomies realized in Paulista Hospital of Otorhinolaryngology on the last 7 years. Study design: Clinical randomized. Materials and Method: Retrospective analysis of 59 patients with otosclerosis who underwent stapedotomy performed by the same surgeon and follow-up clinical and audiological. Results: Hearing improvement proved by audiogram air-bone gap closure in 53 patients (90%). The complications occurred were displaced prosthesis (7%); taste alterations (7%); facial paralysis (3%); vertigo (3%); prosthesis total extrusion (1,5%); tinnitus (1,5%); tympanic membrane perforation (1,5%). Conclusion: Stapedotomy has been seen as good therapeutic choice to the treatment to the conductive hearing loss by otosclerosis seeing that generally has low morbidity and high success rates, providing better life quality to this patients.