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To investigate hearing improvement following day-case stapes surgery compared to in-patient stapes surgery and the effect of both methods on quality of life, cost-effectiveness and complication rates (mainly tinnitus and vertigo).
To measure the 18F-fluoride activity of otosclerosis in patients diagnosed with otosclerosis (by audiometry, CT scan and/or operative findings) in a different stage of their disease. If this diagnostic proves to be reliable and reproducible, this…
To investigate which surgical technique (with or without vein graft interposition) is most (cost-)effective in patients with otosclerosis in terms of the average postoperative air-bone gap (ABG) closure, individual air and bone conduction thresholds…
To gain information about the characteristics of the oVEMP-response in patients with otosclerosis and to objectify the complaints of dizziness pre- and postoperatively through a dizziness questionnaire.
The study objectives are to measure the impact of swimming in chlorinated water on the upper and lower airways of children with and without *doctors diagnosed asthma* by means of the following methods: 1.Tympanometry after otoscopy 2.Airway…
To construct an optimal diagnostic protocol enabling general practitioners to distinguish between dizzy elderly patients who need treatment, dizzy elderly patients who need further diagnostics and dizzy elderly patients who need no further…
Single-stage bone-anchored hearing implant surgery in the pediatric population using the BHX implant
To compare implant loss between single-stage BAHI surgery (test group) and two-stage BAHI surgery (control group) in children. Furthermore, to compare soft tissue status, time to loading and duration of surgery between groups.
To establish the clinical and cost-effectiveness of antibiotic-corticosteroid eardrops as compared with oral antibiotics in children with AOMd.
To compare implant loss between single-stage BAHI surgery (test group) and two-stage BAHI surgery (control group) in children. Furthermore, to compare soft tissue status, time to loading and duration of surgery between groups.
OBJECTIVE(S)/RESEARCH QUESTION(S) 1. Are the hearing levels after three years of follow-up with annual diffusion-weighted MRI comparable to those after follow-up with second look surgery?2. Is a diffusion-weighted MRI follow-up strategy cost-…