Acute Otitis Media (AOM) is a very common condition in children. Complications of acute otitis media have reduced with the introduction of antibiotics. However, intratemporal and intracranial complications still arise, particularly if there is acute mastoiditis. We discuss the intracranial complications of acute otitis media in children together with evidence-based management.

This report presents the results of the clinical observation of 96 children under ten years of age with acute otitis media (107 ears) who visited our out-patient clinic from May 1986 to August 1987. The patients were classified into the following three groups according to clinical course: Group 1: 25 cases (26.0%) in which acute inflammatory findings rapidly disappeared and otitis media was cur...

Objective The objective is to perform a comprehensive review of the literature up to 2015 on the genetics and precision medicine relevant to otitis media. Data Sources PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine. Review Methods Two subpanels were formed comprising experts in the genetics and precision medicine of otitis media. Each of the panels reviewed the literature in their respecti...

Chronic suppurative otitis media, infection of the middle ear, is a common disease in the developing countries and the complications associated with it still pose a major problem in the developing countries. The proximity of the middle ear cleft and mastoid air cells to the extracranial and intracranial compartments places structures located in these areas at increased risk of infectious compli...

Cerebral venous thrombosis as a manifestation of paraneoplastic angitis and otitis media, revealing non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma (NHBL), is extremely rare. A 57-year-old woman presented with headache, auditory disturbance and recalcitrant otitis media. Magnetic resonance imaging showed brain edema in the temporal lobe and transverse sinus thrombosis. External drainage under antibiotic treatment ...

recurrent ear, nose, and throat (ent) infections are common presenting symptoms in patients with primary antibody deficiencies , but sometimes they remain undiagnosed for many years and are subjected to different antibiotics because of a lack of experience in immunodeficiencies. in order to determin the frequency of ent symptoms among the patients with antibody deficiencies, 83 antibody deficie...

background this study has been designed to investigate the clinical association between gastro esophageal reflux disease (gerd) and chronic otitis media (com) in adults and also the role of gerd treatment on the outcome of com surgery. methods in a randomized clinical trial, 58 patients with com who were candidates for surgery were evaluated for gerd and divided in two groups; gerd posi­tive (c...

introduction: the use of ossicular graft material in ossicular chain reconstruction has significantly improved hearing results hearing after tympanoplasty and tympanomastoid surgery for chronic otitis media. today, otologists have a wide array of tools from which to choose, but may find it difficult to know which middle ear implant works best.   materials and methods: a prospective study of 80 ...

BACKGROUND The number of visits for otitis media, the most common diagnosis among preschool children, has increased during the past decade. This study was undertaken to determine whether there has been a concurrent increase in the prevalence of recurrent otitis media among children in the United States and to identify risk factors or demographic changes to explain the increase. METHODS Second...

A low level of serum antibody to antigens expressed by Streptococcus pneumoniae has been proposed to explain the susceptibility of children to recurrent episodes of acute otitis media (hereafter, "otitis-prone children"). By use of enzyme-linked immunospot assays, the percentages of memory B cells to pneumococcal protein antigens PhtD, LytB, PcpA, PhtE, and Ply were compared between otitis-pron...