Glue ear.

Glue ear surgery.

Black and Hutchings present an intriguing account of the rise and fall of glue ear surgery in two English regions. 1 They speculate that the acceleration of the decline from 1992 may have been due to the Effective Health Care bulletin on glue ear, helped by five " contextual features ". One of these was the concurrent structural change to the NHS arising from the introduction of healthcare comm...

Using tympanometry to detect glue ear in general practice.

Autoinflation: an effective nondrug intervention for glue ear.

Reflux of gastric juice and glue ear in children.

Otitis media with effusion (glue ear) is the most frequent cause of deafness in children. We investigated the role of gastric juice reflux in this disease. We measured pepsin concentrations in middle ear effusions from children using ELISA and enzyme activity assays. 45 (83%) of 54 effusions contained pepsin/pepsinogen at concentrations of up to 1000-fold greater than those in serum. Our data s...

Chronic otitis media with effusion (glue ear) and adenotonsillectomy.

A prospective study was conducted of the effects of adenoidectomy and adenotonsillectomy on established otitis media with effusion unresponsive to medical treatment. The operations were performed at random with a controlled no surgery group on a cohort of 103 children with the condition and the results assessed six weeks, three months, six months, nine months, and one year later. After adenoide...