Characterization of pain after tympanoplasty and tympanomastoidectomy and analysis of risk factors. A prospective cohort study.

Narin N Carmel NeidermanMor FrischOphir HandzelOmer J UngarYahav OronOren Cavel

Published 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 (2021)

We demonstrated that younger age, the presence of a comorbidity, revision surgery, preoperative dizziness or tinnitus and postoperative tinnitus were predictors of increased pain after tympanoplasty and tympanomastoidectomy, while the inclusion of a mastoidectomy was a predictor of decreased pain.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
risk factors
neuropathic pain
patients undergoing
minimally invasive
total knee arthroplasty
spinal cord injury
coronary artery disease
coronary artery bypass
spinal cord
hearing loss
atrial fibrillation