Quality of Life after Surgical Treatment for Chronic Otitis Media: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Questionnaires
4.2. Surgical Technique
4.3. Primary vs. Revision Surgery
4.4. Post-Operative Hearing and QoL
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Terminology to Identify Chronic Otitis Media and Its Variants as the Treated Pathology | Number of Articles Using It |
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Chronic otitis media (COM) with or without cholesteatoma | 7 |
Cholesteatoma | 6 |
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) with or without cholesteatoma | 4 |
Cholesteatoma vs. inflammatory mucosa/process | 2 |
Chronic otitis media (COM) vs. cholesteatoma | 2 |
Chronic otitis media squamous disease with cholesteatoma | 1 |
Mucosal vs. squamous chronic otitis media | 1 |
Adhesive otitis media | 1 |
Authors | Year | N Of Patients Eventually Included | Surgery | Comparison of Qol between Groups | Questionnaires | Quality of Evidence | Risk of Bias | |
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1 | Baumann I. et al. [4] | 2011 | 90 | TPL | Preop vs. postop | COMOT-15; SF-36 | Low | Low |
2 | Si Y. et al. [5] | 2018 | 120 | TPL with or without ETBD | No surgery vs. ETBD vs. CT vs. CT + ETBD | THI; COMOT-15; ETS | High | Low |
3 | Lucidi D. et al. [6] | 2019 | 81 | CWU TPL and CWD TPL without obliteration | CWU TPL vs. CWD TPL without obliteration | CES; COMOT-15 | Moderate | Low |
4 | Quaranta N. et al. [7] | 2014 | 100 | CWU TPL and CWD TPL with obliteration | CWU TPL vs. CWD TPL with obliteration | CES | Moderate | Low |
5 | Berling Holm K. et al. [8] | 2018 | 37 | Middle ear surgery (not better specified) | Preop vs. postop in cholesteatoma group; cholesteatoma vs. otosclerosis | SF-36 | Low | Low |
6 | Baetens W. et al. [9] | 2019 | 26 | CWD TPL with obliteration | Preop vs. postop | COMQ-12 | Low | High |
7 | Jung K.H. et al. [10] | 2010 | 41 | CWU TPL and CWD TPL | Primary vs. revision surgery | CES | Low | Low |
8 | Maile E.J. et al. [11] | 2015 | 161 | Middle ear surgery (not better specified) | Preop vs. postop | GBI | Low | Low |
9 | Uluyol S. et al. [12] | 2018 | 22 | CWD TPL and CWD TPL with reconstruction | CWD TPL vs. CWD TPL with reconstruction | GBI | Low | Low |
10 | Choi S.Y. et al. [13] | 2012 | 156 | TPL with or without mastoidectomy | Preop vs. postop | CES | Moderate | High |
11 | Westerberg J. et al. [14] | 2020 | 34 | CWU TPL with obliteration | Preop vs. postop | GBI | Low | High |
12 | Bhatia K. et al. [15] | 2016 | 37 | Type 1 TPL | Preop vs. postop | COM-5 | Low | High |
13 | Lailach S. et al. [16] | 2015 | 97 | ETC; TCM; CWD TPL with obliteration | ETC vs. TCM vs. CWD with obliteration | COMOT-15 | Moderate | Low |
14 | Bernardeschi D. et al. [17] | 2016 | 39 | CWU TPL and CWD TPL with epitympanic and mastoid obliteration with bioactive glass s53p4 | CWD TPL VS. CWU TPL; primary versus revision surgery; cholesteatoma vs. non-cholesteatomatous otitis media | GBI and a surgery-specific questionnaire | Low | High |
15 | Kurien G. et al. [18] | 2013 | 58 | CWD TPL with primary or secondary obliteration | Primary vs. secondary obliteration | GBI | Low | High |
16 | Dornhoffer J.L. et al. [1] | 2008 | 23 | Revision of open cavity with secondary obliteration | Preop vs. postop | GBI with three additional, surgery-specific questions | Low | High |
17 | Weiss N.M., Bächinger D., Rrahmani A., et al. [19] | 2020 | 54 | NA | Comparison between patients with different cholesteatoma stage according to the ChOLE classification | ZCMEI-21 | Moderate | High |
18 | Weiss N.M., Bächinger D., Botzen J., et al. [20] | 2020 | 25 | Revision of open cavity with secondary obliteration | Preop vs. postop | ZCMEI-21 | Low | High |
19 | Lailach S. et al. [21] | 2021 | 102 | CWU TPL and CWD TPL | Preop vs. postop | COMOT-15, ZCMEI-21, SF-36, PHQ-9 | Moderate | High |
20 | Bächinger D., Großmann W. et al. [22] | 2021 | 108 | CWU TPL, CWD TPL, secondary obliteration, hearing restoration surgery | Cholesteatoma vs. COM vs. PMC | ZCMEI-21 | Low | High |
21 | Bächinger D., Mlynski R. et al. [23] | 2020 | 103 | CWU TPL, CWD TPL, secondary obliteration, hearing restoration surgery | Cholesteatoma vs. COM vs. PMC | ZCMEI-21 | Moderate | High |
22 | Taneja V. et al. [24] | 2020 | 108 | TEES, microscopic TPL, micro-endoscopic TPL | Endoscopic vs. microscopic and combined approaches; cholesteatoma vs. non-cholesteatomatous otitis media | GBI | Moderate | Low |
23 | Mishra A.K. et al. [25] | 2021 | 68 | CWD TPL with obliteration | Bone patè vs. bioactive glass obliteration | GBI | High | Low |
24 | Lucidi D. et al. [26] | 2022 | 85 | TEES and open centrifugal endoscopic tympanoplasty | Cholesteatoma vs. COM; primary vs. revision surgery; endoscopic transcanal vs. open centrifugal TPL | CES; DASS-21 | Moderate | High |
Questionnaire for Quality of Life Assessment | Number of Articles Using It |
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GBI | 8 |
CES | 5 |
COMOT-15 | 5 |
ZCMEI-21 | 5 |
SF-36 | 3 |
COM-5 | 1 |
SURGERY-SPECIFIC QUESTIONNAIRES | 2 |
COMQ-12 | 1 |
PHQ-9 | 1 |
THI | 1 |
ETS | 1 |
DASS-21 | 1 |
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Lucidi, D.; Cantaffa, C.; Nocini, R.; Martone, A.; Alicandri-Ciufelli, M.; Marchioni, D.; Presutti, L.; Molinari, G. Quality of Life after Surgical Treatment for Chronic Otitis Media: A Systematic Review of the Literature. J. Pers. Med. 2022, 12, 1959. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12121959
Lucidi D, Cantaffa C, Nocini R, Martone A, Alicandri-Ciufelli M, Marchioni D, Presutti L, Molinari G. Quality of Life after Surgical Treatment for Chronic Otitis Media: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 2022; 12(12):1959. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12121959
Chicago/Turabian StyleLucidi, Daniela, Carla Cantaffa, Riccardo Nocini, Andrea Martone, Matteo Alicandri-Ciufelli, Daniele Marchioni, Livio Presutti, and Giulia Molinari. 2022. "Quality of Life after Surgical Treatment for Chronic Otitis Media: A Systematic Review of the Literature" Journal of Personalized Medicine 12, no. 12: 1959. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12121959