منابع مشابه
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...
متن کاملSpontaneous resolution of severe chronic glue ear in children and the effect of adenoidectomy, tonsillectomy, and insertion of ventilation tubes (grommets).
OBJECTIVE To measure the time to spontaneous resolution of severe chronic otitis media with effusion (glue ear) in children and study the effects of adenoidectomy, adenotonsillectomy, and ventilation tubes (grommets). DESIGN Randomised controlled study over 12 years. SETTING Paediatric otorhinolaryngology clinics and in-patient unit. SUBJECTS 228 children aged 2-9 years with pronounced he...
متن کاملReflux 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...
متن کاملChronic 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...
متن کاملSwimming and grommets.
BACKGROUND Traditionally, children with tympanostomy ventilating tubes, or grommets, were advised that water should not enter their ears in order to prevent ear infections. This group of children has been considered somewhat handicapped regarding swimming. We conducted a prospective study to determine if there is a relation between suppurative otitis media and surface swimming in children with ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107687807100726