Prospective evaluation of disease-specific quality of life measurements after stapes surgery using Nitinol Head Prostheses.
Nora Magdalena WeissSophie SchuldtTobias OberhoffnerChristian GinzkeyRobert MlynskiPublished in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (2019)
Stapes surgery leads to significant improvements of hearing and the HRQoL. However, correlations between HRQoL questionnaire scores and the audiometric outcomes were inconclusive, indicating that the use of HRQoL measures for the assessment of stapedotomy outcomes to complement objective outcomes should be encouraged.