Long-Term Hearing Results After Ossiculoplasty.

Objectives: To determine if the OOPS index is predictive of long-term hearing results after ossiculoplasty. Study Design: Case series with retrospective chart review. Setting: Tertiary care otology practice. Patients: Adult and pediatric patients (3-88 years of age). Interventions: Ossiculoplasty with cartilage tympanoplasty, with or without mastoidectomy. Outcome Measures: Primary outcome measures included short-term hearing results (pure-tone average air-bone gap [PTA-ABG] measured between 60 days and 1 year after surgery), long-term hearing results (PTA-ABG measured >=5 years after surgery), and the rate of successful ABG closure to

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