Acute otitis media in children is very common with an estimated incidence of 85 % within the first year of life. Children usually present with fever, ear fullness, ear discharge and conductive hearing loss. The most common etiologies of acute otitis media in children are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. The diagnosis is based on clinical examination a...

Results. Male gender was a significant (P = 0.011) risk factor for acquiring otitis media (male Vs female; 36.25% Vs 25.38%. OR = 1.671 95 CI = 1.139, 2.454). Age significantly (P < 0.0001) affected the prevalence of otitis media with children within the age range of 0 – 5years having the highest prevalence of 78.41%. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the predominant bacteria isolate causing otitis me...

Acute otitis media in children is very common with an estimated incidence of 85 % within the first year of life. Children usually present with fever, ear fullness, ear discharge and conductive hearing loss. The most common etiologies of acute otitis media in children are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. The diagnosis is based on clinical examination a...

Acute otitis media is diagnosed frequently in childhood with peak incidence between 6 and 15 months of age. It is the most common reason for physician visits and antibiotic prescriptions in children, with an excess of $100 spent per episode. In this article we discuss current concepts of complementary and alternative medicine as they apply to otitis media. A thorough literature review shows tha...

The purpose of this study was to obtain a preliminary estimate of how otitis media with effusion affects the hearing sensitivity of infants. An observer-based method was used to estimate detection thresholds for IOOOor 4000-Hz tones for infants diagnosed with otitis media by a physician and for control infants. These preliminary results suggest that otitis media with effusion produces a mild to...

Objectives. To discuss the management of a squamous cell carcinoma in the presence of malignant otitis externa. Study Design. We present only the third reported case in the literature of a synchronous tumour with malignant otitis externa in the literature. Methods. A case report and review of malignant otitis externa and squamous cell carcinomas of the external auditory canal are discussed. Res...

conclusions although there was not a significant relation shown between vitamin d levels between the two groups in our study, the vitamin d level in ome patients was less than in the control group. therefore, it seems that measuring the level of vitamin d in these patients is necessary, and a deficiency of vitamin d must be treated. in order to achieve certain results with more detail we sugges...

introduction: to study the long-term complications of tympanostomy tube insertion in young children 10 years after surgery.   materials and methods: in september 2011, the medical records of all patients who had undergone myringotomy with tympanostomy tube insertion between february 2000 and march 2001 at the two general hospitals of isfahan university of medical sciences were studied. of the 9...

introduction: an otogenic brain abscess is a common ent problem but an otogenic trapezius abscess can also be experienced in otolaryngological practice, particularly in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media.   case report: we report a rare case of a trapezius abscess in an eight-year-old girl who presented at the ent, head and neck surgery postgraduate medical institute, lady reading h...