Revision stapes surgery: a review of 102 cases

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.