Outcomes of Complications of Chronic Otitis Media in Tertiary Care Facilty in Western Uttar Pradeh

Prevalence of Fungal Infection in Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media – A Study at Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Uttar Pradesh

Background: Chronic otitis media (CSOM) is a notorious infection prevalent mostly in developing countries due to indiscriminate uses of local steroid and antibiotics in the ear either alone or combination. Humidity also plays a major contributing factor in the etiology of otitis media. Objective: To know the prevalence of fungal infection in chronic suppurative otitis media. Method: The study w...

Intracranial complications of chronic suppurative otitis media.

Twenty-nine patients with chronic suppurative otitis media with intracranial complications are reviewed. The complications occurred predominantly in young patients with a mean age of 17 years. The most common complication was brain abscess (n = 20). The others were meningitis (n = 3), subdural abscess (n = 3), perisinus abscess (n = 2) and otitic intracranial hypertension (n = 1). The common pa...

Extracranial Complications of Chronic Otitis Media

Of 97 extracranial complication cases, 41 (42.3%) were female and 56 (57.7%) were male with ages ranging from 5 to 83 years (mean age, 43.9 years). Two (2.1%) patients were in the first decade, 9 (9.3%) in second, 16 (16.5%) in third, 22 (22.7%) in fourth, 8 (8.2%) in fifth, 17 (17.5%) in sixth, 13(13.4%) in seventh, 7 (7.2%) in eighth and 3 (3.1%) in ninth decade. Table 1 shows the distributio...

News about Chronic Otitis Serosis of Middle Ear (Otitis Media)

Serios otitis media is one of those ear Trou­bles that has enjoyed a very extensive research two decaides.  I ts recognition in medical literature goes b,ick tc eighteenth century. Since then there has been rather little progress in this field. The dis­covery of antibiotcs and thence lessening of in­ fecticus ear diseases, attention has been paid to preserve the function of ear, and naturally...

Intracranial complications of chronic suppurative otitis media in children Summary