Ricerc@Sapienza

Revision stapes surgery is generally proposed in case of insufficient
hearing gain and inner ear complications (vertigo, sensorineural
hearing loss) after primary surgery.1 However, it is reported to be
less effective, from a functional point of view, than primary surgery.
2 As a consequence, the decision to perform revision surgery
should be properly balanced. The causes of hearing failure and
inner ear complications should be carefully evaluated preoperatively
so as to give revision surgery a higher chance of success. The aims
of this study were to analyse the functional results from a large
series of revision stapes surgery performed by the same surgeons,
and to compare these results with those of primary surgery performed
by the same team, last, to correlate the results with the
intraoperative findings.