Acute inflammation of the middle ear (also referred to below as " acute otitis media ") is generally defined as acute, short-term, clinically confirmed inflammation in the middle ear. Second to the common cold, acute otitis media is the most common infectious disease among children. Mainly small children are affected; prior to 2 years of age, approximately 50% of children have at least one epis...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical features, radiologic findings, and treatment outcomes in patients of facial nerve paralysis with chronic ear infections. And we also aimed to evaluate for radiologic sensitivities on facial canal, labyrinth and cranial fossa dehiscences in middle ear cholesteatomas. METHODS A total of 13 patients were enrolled in this study....

BACKGROUND Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a chronic infection of the middle ear cleft. In sub-Saharan Africa >50% of cases occur in children <10 years of age. OBJECTIVES To describe the otological, audiological and bacteriological findings in children with CSOM. METHODS We conducted a prospective study at the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Clinic at Universitas Academic Hospital bet...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The genetic factors leading to a predisposition to otitis media are not well understood. The objective of the current study was to develop a tag-single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panel to determine if there is an association between candidate gene polymorphisms and the development of chronic otitis media with effusion. STUDY DESIGN A 1:1 case/control design of 100 cas...

BACKGROUND Acute otitis media causes human suffering and enormous costs to society. Symptoms of acute otitis media overlap those of the common cold, and diagnostic methods confirming the diagnosis are used only occasionally. Uncertainty in diagnostics may lead either to overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment or to underdiagnosis and an increase in complications. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to eval...

introduction: the ministry of health and medical education of iran, and similar institutions in many other countries, advises physicians to use current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (aom). however, there has been no evaluation of the effectiveness of such guidelines or whether physicians in iran adhere to them. thus, as laryngologists are the most important gr...

Otitis media typically presents as either acute otitis media (AOM), with symptoms including fever, otalgia, otorrhoea or irritability and short duration; or as otitis media with effusion (OME), which is often asymptomatic and characterised by accumulation of fluid in the middle ear. Diagnostic certainty of otitis media is challenging, given the young age of patients and variability of symptoms....

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate improvements in validated quality-of-life measures for otitis media and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and an objective score for pediatric reflux obtained by fiberoptic laryngoscopy after treatment with antireflux precautions and therapy in children diagnosed as having either recurrent acute otitis media or otitis media with effusion and GERD. DESIGN Prospec...

BACKGROUND Appropriate use of antibiotics is one of the major issues in medicine today. In most countries, acute otitis media in children is treated with antibiotics; however, the efficacy of antibiotic use in every acute otitis media is a controversial issue. It may be worthwhile looking for special risk groups that benefit more from antibiotic treatment for acute otitis media. Children under ...

abstract background: the children with middle ear effusion need repeated re-tympanostomies. adenoidectomy is an effective surgical intervention in the management of chronic otitis media with effusion in conjunction with in-sertion of tympanostomy tubes (tts). to find out whether tts in different positions decrease the rate of re-tympanostomies study was done. methods: the present study retrospe...