The Performance of Patient-reported Outcome Measures as Diagnostic Tools for Eustachian Tube Dysfunction

Conclusions:
The CETDA and ETDQ-7 are not disease-specific and cannot distinguish obstructive from patulous ETD subtypes. A relatively weak correlation between sonotubometry and tubomanometry results, PROM scores, and the clinical diagnosis suggests that a varied core set of outcome measures is required to monitor response to treatments for ETD.

Source: Otology and Neurotology - September 15, 2018 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Middle Ear and Mastoid Disease Source Type: research