stapedectomy

He performed the first successful reconstructive stapedectomy in May, 1956.

It has also been a complication of a stapedectomy.

At the end of the show's third season, Grissom underwent a stapedectomy to correct it.

A stapedectomy is a surgical procedure of the middle ear performed to improve hearing.

Bellucci pioneered in use of the stapedectomy to successfully treat patients with ostosclerosis and hearing impairment.

Indications of stapedectomy:

In a landmark article by Glasscock et al. the overall complication rate for stapedectomy was found to be 45% with a 10% rate of dead ears.

Because it is a simpler and safer procedure, stapedotomy is normally preferred to stapedectomy in the absence of predictable complications.

Treatment of otosclerosis relies on two primary options: Hearing aid (more recently including bone-conduction hearing aids) and a surgery called a stapedectomy.

Contraindications for stapedectomy:

House perfected many critical otologic surgical procedures, such as the fenestration operation in the 1940s and the stapedectomy surgery in the subsequent three decades.

However, comparisons have shown stapedotomy to yield results at least as good as stapedectomy, with fewer complications, and thus stapedotomy is preferred under normal circumstances.

A stapedectomy consists of removing a portion of the sclerotic stapes footplate and replacing it with an implant that is secured to the incus.

Dwayne Schneider, the building superintendent on "One Day at a Time", undergoes a stapedectomy to correct otosclerosis in one episode.

Hearing aids are usually very effective early in the course of the disease, but eventually a stapedectomy (or more frequently a variant called the stapedotomy) may be required for definitive treatment.

Stapedotomy, like stapedectomy, can be successful in the presence of sclerotic adhesions (tissue growths abnormally linking the bones to the tympanic cavity), provided the adhesions are removed during surgery.

The stapes mobilization operation had varying results and was soon replaced by stapedectomy, first described by John Shea, Jr.; this was an operation that was always performed with the microscope.

Comparisons have shown stapedotomy to yield either as good or better results than stapedectomy (measured by hearing improvement and reduction in the air-bone hearing gap, and especially at higher sound frequencies), and to be less prone to complications.

Tinnitus When a stapedectomy is done in a middle ear with a congenitally fixed footplate, the results may be excellent but the risk of hearing damage is greater than when the stapes bone is removed and replaced (for otosclerosis).

In both of these situations, it is possible to improve hearing by removing the stapes bone and replacing it with a micro prosthesis - a stapedectomy, or creating a small hole in the fixed stapes footplace and inserting a tiny, piston-like prosthesis - a stapedotomy.