Audiological and Middle Ear Outcomes in Ukrainian Soldiers with Traumatic Tympanic Membrane Perforation

11 July 2025 : Clinical Research

Roman Barylyak

^{ABDEF 1}, Piotr H. Skarżyński

^{ABDE 2,3*}, Paulina Deja

^{ACEF 4}, Aleksandra Kołodziejak

^{CEF 4}, Dmytro O. Horoliuk

^{AB 5}, Henryk Skarżyński

^{AB 1}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.948326

Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e948326

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Table 2 Pre- and postoperative mean pure-tone audiometry hearing results.

Data			Hearing threshold		ABG (dB)
Data			BC (dB)	AC (dB)	ABG (dB)
n=59	Preoperative	M	17.0	35.4	18.4
n=59	Preoperative	SD	11.5	13.9	7.5
n=19	Preoperative	M	14.3	35.4	21.1
	Preoperative	SD	10.4	12.6	6.5
	Postoperative	M	15.8	24.1	8.3
	Postoperative	SD	9.7	10.5	3.3
	value		0.003	<0.001	<0.001
n – number of patients; AC – air conduction; BC – bone conduction; ABG – air-bone gap; M – mean; SD – standard deviation; dB – decibel.

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