Taste disturbance after stapes surgery: an evaluation of frequency, severity, duration, and quality-of-life
| Autor: | Katarina Berling Holm, Niklas Danckwardt Lillieström, Johan Knutsson, Andreas Rosenblad, Georgios Papatziamos, Magnus von Unge, Karin Strömbäck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Taste SF-36 Stapes Surgery Taste Disorders Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Postoperative Complications 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Humans Medicine 030223 otorhinolaryngology Aged business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Stapes surgery Surgery Otorhinolaryngology Duration (music) 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Quality of Life Otosclerosis Female business |
| Zdroj: | Acta Oto-Laryngologica. 137:39-43 |
| ISSN: | 1651-2251 0001-6489 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00016489.2016.1217562 |
| Popis: | The incidence of taste disturbance after stapes surgery is high (61.9%), whereas the majority (94.8%) recovers within 1 year. More severe surgical nerve trauma caused more disturbance, implying that the nerve should be handled carefully during surgery.Patients operated on for otosclerosis seem more often to complain about post-operative taste disturbance than those operated on for chronic otitis media, although the chorda tympani nerve more seldom becomes maltreated in stapedotomy. These observations seem paradoxical. It is unclear to what extent a post-operative taste disturbance affects the quality-of-life. This study aims to shed light on the occurrence of post-operative taste disturbances, on possible prognostic factors, and to what extent post-operative taste disturbance impairs the quality-of-life.One hundred and thirty-four adults undergoing primary stapedotomy were included. Questionnaires on taste disturbance and quality-of-life (SF-36) were answered before and after surgery, until 1 year post-operatively.Eighty-three (61.9%) study persons reported post-operative taste disturbance. Seven (5.2%) reported persisting disturbance at 1 year. Surgically more traumatized chorda tympani nerves correlated with more severe taste disturbance post-operatively than less traumatized. Taste disturbance at 1 year post-operatively correlate with a decrease of the physical function domain in the SF-36. |
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