“Otosclerosis” is a hereditary condition that affects one in 200 people. It results in conductive hearing loss that causes individuals to begin to lose their hearing in their 20s and 30s as a consequence of abnormal bone growth in their middle ears. As a consequence of the stapes bone’s inability to move freely, sound waves entering the ear can no longer be transmitted to the inner ear. While current treatments include use of hearing instruments or surgery to remove the affected middle ear bone and replace it with a prosthetic device, recent research has found that faults in the body’s SERPINF1 gene can cause otosclerosis, which holds out the promise for other treatments in the future.
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P.S. The surgical procedure that involves removal of an immobilized stapes bone and replacing it with a prosthetic device is known as “stapedectomy.”
