Otosclerosis during pregnancy and the postpartum period

Abstract

Otosclerosis is a human-specific otic capsule disease. First, in 1741, Valsalva, the Italian anatomist and surgeon, caught the attention of the lesion of otosclerosis in a deaf person's temporal dissection [1]. He observed that the ankylose of footplate occurred due to annular ligament ossification. In 1860, Toynbee first described stapes footplate ankyloses in his cadaveric studies [2]. Politzer, in 1894, described the otosclerotic temporal bone in the final stage of disease [3]. Siebenmann also first defined and used the term "otospongiosis" to show the active stage of disease [4].