• Ao Li, Zheng Liang, Hong Chen, Ye Yang, Yuqin Xu, Xia Gao, and Jie Chen.
• Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Discipline (Laboratory), Nanjing, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Aug 19; 101 (33): e30037e30037.

AbstractMyringoplasty is a surgical procedure to reconstruct tympanic perforation. However, repair of anterior perforations is still challenging. To analyze the anatomical and hearing outcomes of myringoplasty with a new technique of chondroperichondrial graft via endoscopy, 23 adult patients were retrospectively analyzed. All patients had anterior perforations of tympanic membranes that were repaired with a composite strip-type cartilage-perichondrium graft through a total endoscopic transcanal approach. The anatomical graft success rate at postoperative 1 month was 86.96% (20/23) and reached 100% at the 6- and 12-month follow-up. Compared to the preoperative air conduction threshold (44.7 ± 13.56 dB) and air-bone gap (ABG) (22.35 ± 6.54 dB), the postoperative air conduction threshold and ABG decreased to 33.52 ± 10.88 dB and 12.52 ± 3.94 dB, respectively (P < .0001). Twenty-two (95.65%) patients had an ABG below 20 dB postoperatively. The mean ABG improvement in our cohort was 9.83 ± 5.00 dB. The functional graft success rate was 95.65% (22/23). The convenience, reliability, time, and labor savings accrued from the approach described here make it a good choice for repair of anterior perforation of tympanic membrane.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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