BACKGROUND Chronic otitis media is a chronic inflammatory disease of the middle ear cleft which is manifested as deafness and ear discharge. It is a common condition affecting 0.5 - 30% of any community worldwide, and most common in developing countries. The prevalence mainly depends on age, low socio-economic status, overcrowding and limited medical facilities. OBJECTIVE To compare the clini...

the bicuspid aortic valve is known to be the most common congenital cardiac malformation, with an approximate incidence rate of 1-2% in the general population. most patients are unaware of the disease until the onset of infective endocarditis, which is a life-threatening complication that may affect a heart valve or other cardiac structures at the site of endothelial damage. a 22-year-old man p...

introduction: although the incidence and prevalence of chronic suppurative otitis media (csom) has been decreased in recent decades, but it is still a major health problem in both developing and developed countries. csom can cause major and life-threatening complications such as hearing loss, meningitis and cerebral abscess. since hearing loss is the most common complication of csom, we aimed t...

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...

the  main  clinical presentation  of  patients  with  primary antibody  deficiency (pad) incorporates upper respiratory tract infections comprising otitis media, sinusitis and pneumonia.  this  study  was  designed  to  investigate clinical and  paraclinical otological complications in major types of pad.  a cross sectional study was conducted on 55 pad patients with diagnosis of selective iga ...

objective: generated acoustic trauma by suction and drill may cause sensorineural hearing loss after tympanomastoid surgery. this study was carried out to determine the relationship of sensorineural hearing loss and chronic otitis media surgery at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences in iran. material and methods: this prospective study included 386 patients of chronic middle ear di...

To study allergic and immunologic incidence of secretory otitis media, histamine levels were investigated in 90 cases with middle ear effusion by means of the fluorometric assay . Histamine concentration in effusions were significantly higher than serum levels. Statistical analysis indicated that there was no differences between serous and mucoid effusions, nor between children and adults. Tymp...

this study evaluated the histopathologic changes in the round window niche. , and membrane in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media. the pathologic process was found in all subjects. fibrocystic or fibrous tissue was most commonly seen, while active granulation was less developed. the round window membrane was thicker and inflamed throughout its layers. inflammatory invasion of the inner ea...

Health technology The study evaluated tympanomastoid surgery. A comparator was not explicitly stated at the outset, although it was likely to be no tympanomastoid surgery. The health technology was compared between two different patient groups. These were patients with wet ear suffering from chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and patients with dry ear suffering from CSOM. The wet-ear group...