This case report of bilateral otitis media in a 39-year-old woman secondary to Wegener's Granulomatosis highlights, for the audiologist, the importance of being aware of some of the less common etiologies of middle ear disease. Bilateral otitis media that resists usual forms of medical treatment may represent one of the earliest signs of Wegener's Granulomatosis, a potentially life-threatening ...

In this article, a new tool for the intraoperative measurement of distances within the middle ear by means of a micromanipulator is presented. The purpose of this work was to offer the surgeon a highly accurate tool for measuring the distances between two points in the 3D operational field. The tool can be useful in various operations; this article focuses, however, on measuring the distance be...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relation of the grade of the inflammation of the middle ear and the pathological findings of the tympanic membranes using human serial horizontal sections from 16 temporal bones with otitis media with effusion. As controls, we used 96 normal temporal bones. The results were as follows. 1) In cases with a lot of inflammation cells in the middle ear eff...

Historically, the ipsilateral acoustic reflex (IAR) has played a prominent role in middle ear screening protocols. However, in 1990, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's revised guidelines, "Screening for Hearing Impairment and Middle Ear Disorders," deleted the IAR as a screening parameter. This decision was based on studies that demonstrated that the inclusion of the IAR resulte...

A rapid polymerase chain reaction test was developed for specific identification of the human middle ear pathogen Alloiococcus otitis. Primers for the enzymatic amplification reaction were designed from highly specific sequences within the 16S rRNA gene. In addition, a confirmatory test based on hybridization of the polymerase chain reaction products to a specific internal probe was developed.

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis of a positive association, independent of social position, between participation in leisure activities and cognitive function in middle age. The nature of this relation is explored by first classifying leisure activities as entailing high or low cognitive effort, and then classifying them as entailing individual or social activities. SETTING London based offi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many children are treated for recurrent acute otitis media and middle ear effusion with ventilation tubes (VT). The objectives are to describe the incidence of VT in Denmark during 1997-2011 from national register data, furthermore, to analyze the determinants for VT in the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood2010 (COPSAC2010) birth cohort. METHODS T...

Otitis media (OM) is a group of inflammatory diseases of the middle ear (ME), regardless of cause or pathological mechanism. Among the molecular biological studies assessing the pathology of OM are investigations into the expression of C-type lectin receptors (CLR) in the ME and Eustachian tube (ET). To date, nine studies have evaluated CLR expression in the ME and ET. The expression of individ...

The purpose of this investigation was to describe, in a longitudinal prospective study, the acoustic-immittance profile during sessions with effusion and during sessions without effusion in children with recurrent middle-ear effusion (MEE). The static-acoustic middle-ear admittance, tympanometric width (TW), tympanometric peak pressure (TPP), and ipsilateral acoustic reflex (IAR) were evaluated...