Hearing improvement after vestibular schwannoma surgery in the era of the hearing preservation rule - case report and literature review
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00064203%3A_____%2F22%3A10435114" target="_blank" >RIV/00064203:_____/22:10435114 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11110/22:10435114
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=wWMoKichoh" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=wWMoKichoh</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/bp.2021.067" target="_blank" >10.5507/bp.2021.067</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hearing improvement after vestibular schwannoma surgery in the era of the hearing preservation rule - case report and literature review
Original language description
OBJECTIVES: Hearing preservation after vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery remains a surgical challenge. In some patients with preserved inner ear function, hearing improvement is achievable. As it is currently impossible to determine which patients will present this outcome, predictions must rely on previously published reports. Our case report describes a patient who experienced hearing improvement from an unuseful level to a useful one after vestibular schwannoma surgery. METHODS: Surgery was performed via suboccipital retrosigmoid approach. The patient underwent a basic audiovestibular protocol before and after the surgery - pure tone and speech audiometry, otoacoustic emissions, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography - together with a detailed questionnaire study. Usefulness of hearing was evaluated using the AAO-HNS guidelines, supplemented by a frequency of 4 kHz. RESULTS: Hearing was preserved and even improved from an unuseful level to a useful one. Based on the available literature, the most informative predictive factors for such a result seem to be: sudden sensorineural hearing loss prior to surgery, elicitable otoacoustic emissions and the origin from the superior vestibular nerve. CONCLUSION: There are a limited number of studies on this topic and it is still impossible to regularly improve hearing in properly selected patients. Furthermore, the importance of postoperative hearing quality compared to other symptoms and complications remains debatable.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30206 - Otorhinolaryngology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biomedical Papers
ISSN
1213-8118
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
166
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
347-352
UT code for WoS article
000731344900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85138086063