Otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear and tympanic membrane, which often occurs as a result an acute upper respiratory tract infection. Generally, it caused by viral infection that then complicated secondary bacterial However, initial may also be bacterial.Otitis very common in children there high rate spontaneous recovery. It has been suggested unavoidable illness childhood part natur...

BACKGROUND Considering the presence of squamous epithelial cells and fibroblasts in the tympanic membrane (TM), topical estrogen application may influence the repair of TM perforations. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the healing effect of topical estrogen on chronic TM perforations and improvement in hearing threshold. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty patients were enrolled in a...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Olive oil is often used by patients to soften ear wax or to relieve ear canal obstruction. It is also sold in drugstores as a cerumenolytic. To date, no study has assessed the safety of ototopical olive oil on hearing in the presence of tympanic membrane perforation. The present study aimed to assess the safety of ototopic olive oil on hearing in the presence of tympanic m...

Most acute tympanic membrane perforations heal spontaneously without any residual complication, whereas a fraction transforms into a chronic perforation. The current treatment of a chronic perforation is surgical repair, which is a costly, time consuming and uncomfortable procedure particularly for the pediatric patients. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the underlying mechanisms of ...

The effect of the presence of tympanosclerotic plaques in tympanic membrane on the outcome of a myringoplasty procedure was evaluated in this retrospective study. Long-term results of 714 myringoplasties were analyzed, and of these, 555 were eligible for further study. Three groups were studied separately: ears without tympanosclerosis, ears with a plaque not exceeding one third of the tympanic...

INTRODUCTION Temperature measurement is important during routine neurocritical care especially as differences between brain and systemic temperatures have been observed. The purpose of the study was to determine if infra-red temporal artery thermometry provides a better estimate of brain temperature than tympanic membrane temperature for patients with severe traumatic brain injury. METHODS Br...

OBJECTIVE The aims of our study were to evaluate the outcome of office-based paper patch grafting in tympanic membrane (TM) perforation regardless of the disease duration or etiology and to compare the clinical factors influencing the successful closure of perforation between the success and failure groups of paper patch myringoplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of 11...

INTRODUCTION Tympanoplasty is the standard and well established procedure for closure of tympanic membrane perforations .This paper compares the results of tympanoplasty in terms of hearing improvement and graft incorporation in patients with chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane between two groups with and without active drainage at the time of surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty ref...

Objective. The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of inlay butterfly tympanoplasty technique in large central tympanic membrane perforations. Methods. The files of the patients who underwent inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty for large central tympanic membrane perforations were reviewed. Patients were followed with otoscopy and audiometry. Preoperative and postoperative pure-ton...