Our systematic literature review reporting long‐term hearing outcomes and complications data on adult and pediatric patients with chronic otitis media that underwent a tympanoplasty has been published in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology.
This is the first time that experts from several continents have come together in order to create a document that reflects the status of hearing rehabilitation for individuals with COM-related hearing loss.
Data show that 14.0% of patients encountered postoperative complications and 7/10 patients had a postoperative air‐bone gap of less than 20 dB HL at long‐term follow‐up, which is considered a successful hearing outcome.
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