2011, Number 2
Wet ear surgeries, done 30 years ago, at Specialty Hospital of West National Medical Center. A retrospective study of 50 cases, 1978-1979
López LE, López DE, Stephens GA, Arcaute VF, Robles MB, Bañuelos AR, Cervantes MR, Bravo CA, Troyo SR, Macías BM
Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 76-81
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ABSTRACT
Background: The wet ear surgery at the worldwide level has not changed its approach to therapy, so that operative paragraphs of this disease concepts are the same as 30 years ago and in the same order: 1) the elimination of infection and 2) the deaf surgery.Objective: To assess the results of this surgery with current concepts.
Material and method: We performed a descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective clinical records were analyzed medical records of 50 surgeries performed wet ear 30 years ago in the Specialty Hospital of the Western National Medical Center, Guadalajara, Jalisco. The dependent variable was: The difference between the curve of hearing air and bone hearing curve (gap) of the operated ear in the preoperative and postoperative three months. The intervening variables were: age, sex, otologic diagnosis, preoperative audiological diagnosis, types of surgical procedures, histopathology diagnosis and postoperative audiological diagnosis to three months. We calculated the average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum for age global and by sex and compared the difference by age between sex using the Student’s t test, for other variables frequency tables were developed using an ordinal scale which is assigned the value 0 to the condition anacusia, the value of 1 to the hearing loss and the value of 3 to cases with normal hearing and applying Wilcoxon test and we evaluated the diagnostic changes between preoperative and postoperative audiological.
Results: The analysis allows us to obtain a p ‹ 0.001 whit the Wilcoxon test that underlies the good operative ability of otologist surgeons 30 years ago.
Conclusions: The study shows that doctors 30 years ago were good, because 70% of the operated patients were cured.
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