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Taste Disturbance After Middle Ear Surgery: Frequency, Duration, Influence of Chorda Tympani Injury and Quality of Life

NCT04899011 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 214

Last updated 2025-03-10

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Summary

Chorda tympani nerve (CTN), is a branch of nerve VII, and has two componants: taste sensation from the anterior two thirds of the tongue and salivary secretion from submandibular and sublingual salivary glands.

CTN go throw middle ear between malleus and incus. Due to it anatomic localization, CTN is frequently damage during otologic surgery.

Taste disturbance after middle ear surgery has been describe in literature but results of the various studies are very heterogenous. Moreover, there is no consensus to preserved or sacrificed a traumatize CTN.

We will use questionnaire to evaluate frequency, duration and characteristics of taste disturbance after ear surgery and the impact on the quality of life for those with symptoms.

We will evaluate the Influence of type of CTN injury on taste disturbance.

Conditions

  • Ear Middle Problems

Interventions

OTHER

Questionnaire

Questionnaire about taste and salivary disturbance before surgery, 10 days, 4 months and 1 year after surgery. Questionnaires include characteristics of taste disturbance, and specific impact on quality of life.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nicolas GUEVARA, Dr · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-30
Primary Completion
2023-05-23
Completion
2023-05-23

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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