tympanoplasty failure

ENT An unsuccessful tympanoplasty due to recurrent perforation, persistent drainage, conductive hearing loss, malleus handle pull-away, anterior sulcus blunting, cholesteatoma and graft material breakdown; most 'problem ears' can be repaired or prevented, requiring removal of offending residual mastoid and middle ear disease and reconstruction

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Patients with tympanoplasty failure should be carefully examined for causes which should be addressed during a revision procedure.

Hearing outcome in canal wall down mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty

(5) For example, it is known that tympanoplasty failure rates are higher in patients who have larger perforations.

Assessments of the size of tympanic membrane perforations: a comparison of clinical estimations with video-otoscopic calculations

However, tympanoplasty or mastoidectomy in the absence of appropriate drug therapy will likely be complicated by fistulae, nonhealing of suture lines, and tympanoplasty failure. (1,10) When surgery is required, the techniques and guidelines are the same as those for the surgical treatment of chronic bacterial otitis media, with or without cholesteatoma.