Background: Otitis media with effusion is one of the leading causes of hearing loss in children. Effective treatment of effusion in the middle ear requires appropriate empirical treatment and characterization of responsible pathogens. Objective of the present study was to detect pathogens in clinical samples from patients with otitis media with effusion in our area and to determine the sensitiv...

Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) is an inflammatory condition of the middle ear cleft, acute or chronic, with collection of fluid in the middle ear with an intact tympanic membrane. It is a very common disease in childhood, the most frequent cause of hearing loss in childhood and often requiring surgery. OME is called chronic when the fluid in the middle ear persists for more than three months ...

OBJECTIVES 1) To determine the prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis in middle ear effusions of children with otitis media with effusion undergoing myringotomy; 2) to compare the results obtained by culture and PCR; and 3) to determine the susceptibility of bacterial isolates to penicillin. METHODS We analyzed 128 middle ear effusion specimen...

This study was performed to investigate polymerase chain reaction-based detection of bacterial DNA in middle ear fluid and assess the correlation between the PCR-positive rate with several factors associated with middle ear effusion. The purpose was to gain a further understanding of bacterial infection as a major cause of otitis media with effusion. Of the 278 specimens of middle ear fluid, 39...

Otologic problems are infrequent in HIV patients. Authors present the case of chronic otitis media in the HIV infected child. The patient with significant hearing loss, and prolonged aural discharge, resistant to local and systemic antibiotic treatment was treated surgically. Mastoidectomy with myringoplasty was performed. The substantial hearing improvement has been obtained, ear discharge nev...

BACKGROUND Velopharyngeal insufficiency and chronic otitis media with effusion following primary cleft palate repair can be attributed to persistent abnormalities in the levator and tensor veli palatini muscles, respectively. The purpose of this case-control study was to examine the association between otitis media with effusion requiring myringotomy tubes and the need for secondary speech surg...

CSOM is mostly caused by bacteria, but fungi and virus can also be a cause of CSOM. The aerobic microorganisms most frequently isolated in CSOM are Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Gram-negative organisms such as Proteus spp., Klebsiella spp., and Escherichia spp., Citrobacter species, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis (Gül et al., 2006; Verhoeff et al., 2006; de M...

OBJECTIVE To examine the preferred patient approach to chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) of the safe type. METHODS We designed a prospective study to note the variables in the patient's initial choice for approach to CSOM of the safe type at Buraidah Central Hospital, Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia from January 2003 to December 2004. RESULTS During the 24-month study period, we included 63 c...

INTRODUCTION AND GOALS Tubotympanal mucociliary function is damaged in patients with otitis media with effusion. Our objective was to study its situation and recovery after timopanostomy tube insertion. METHODS We evaluated the mucociliary activity of the ear and Eustachian tube with scintigraphy in four groups of adults with chronic otitis media with effusion after ventilation tube insertion...