Very Long Term VHI Voice Outcome After MTIS

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laryngeal Paralysis

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02969993

2016/394

Details and patient eligibility

About

Long term assesment of voice outcome after Montgomery Thyroplastie by performing a Survey of operated patients using the voice handicap index scale

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients presenting UVFP of neurogenic origin treated by MTIS > 2 years before inclusion.
• No superior limit in terms of years.
• Age 18-80 years at the time of MTIS
• No other treatment before MTIS other than resorbing material injection laryngoplasty (maximum twice)
• No further voice treatment after MTIS except speech therapy.
• VHI or VHI-10 performed before MTIS and within the 6 months after MTIS. In case of multiple post-op VHI tests, only the earliest post-op. VHI test will be taken into account
• VHI tests validated for the utilized language

Exclusion criteria

• patient not able to answer VHI questionnaire personally
• Post MTIS new health condition affecting the voice tract and/ or the respiratory function.
• Post MTIS appearance of other voice/ vocal cord pathology

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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53 participants in 1 patient group

Questionnaire

Experimental group

Description:

Questionnaire to previously operated patients

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires