Hearing Loss in Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Characteristics and Treatment Considerations

Table 2

Results of stapedectomy in people with and without OI. Findings depict the number of cases, percent of patients with postoperation air-bone gap of less than 10 dB HL, and percent of patients with postoperation hearing loss.

	Cases	Post-op air bone gap <10 dB	Post-op sensorineural hearing loss
OI series
Garretsen and Cremers [49]	40	78	1.7
Shea and Postma [50]	51	75	8
Ferekidis et al.[51]	9	75	0
Vincent et al.[52]	21	85.7	0
Non-OI series
Vincent et al. [53]	2525	94.2	0.7