Introduction: Traumatic tympanic membrane perforation may be due to direct or indirect source: 1) Inserting of object in the ear canal for example cotton swabs accidentally insertion. 2) Concussion caused by an explosion open handed slap across ear. 3) Head trauma, sudden negative pressure, barotraumatic, latrogenic perforation, sign and symptoms are severe pain, sometimes followed bleeding, he...

OBJECTIVES The silk patch is a thin transparent patch that is produced from silk fibroin. In this study, we investigated the treatment effects of the silk patch in patients with traumatic tympanic membrane perforation (TTMP). METHODS The closure rate, otorrhea rate, and closure time in all patients and the closure time in successful patients were compared between the paper patch and silk patc...

INTRODUCTION Tympanoplasty is the standard and well established procedure for closure of tympanic membrane perforations .This paper compares the results of tympanoplasty in terms of hearing improvement and graft incorporation in patients with chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane between two groups with and without active drainage at the time of surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty ref...

Objective. The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of inlay butterfly tympanoplasty technique in large central tympanic membrane perforations. Methods. The files of the patients who underwent inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty for large central tympanic membrane perforations were reviewed. Patients were followed with otoscopy and audiometry. Preoperative and postoperative pure-ton...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: considering the presence of squamous epithelial cells and fibroblasts in the tympanic membrane (tm), topical estrogen application may influence the repair of tm perforations. therefore, this study was designed to investigate the healing effect of topical estrogen on chronic tm perforations and improvement in hearing threshold. materials ...

Background and Purpose: There are controversial findings regarding the efficacy of antifungal drugs in the treatment of a ruptured eardrum following fungal infections. Regarding this, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the therapeutic effect of the co-administration of antifungal and antibacterial agents in the treatment of otomycosis with tympanic membrane perforation. Materials and...

erein, we present a review of the manuscript titled ‘Treatment of tympanic membrane perforation using bacerial cellulose: A randomized controlled trial’’ by Silveira t al.1 The work outlined in this manuscript was interesting. fter review, we agree with the authors that bacterial celulose is an excellent material for tympanic membrane (TM) egeneration and may be an effective alternative to cone...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate how fibrinogen-based collagen fleece (Tachocomb®) graft myringoplasty (FCGM), performed under microscopic guidance, improves both hearing and tympanic membrane tissue repair in patients with traumatic tympanic membrane perforation (TMP). SUBJECTS AND METHODS Between August 2009 and March 2015, a total of 52 patients with traum...

BACKGROUND It is recognized that the size of tympanic membrane perforation is proportional to the magnitude of hearing loss, however, there is no clear consensus on the effect of the location (site) of the perforation on the hearing loss. Hence the study is set to investigate the relationship between the location of perforation on TM and hearing loss. METHODS A cross-sectional prospective stu...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of three different myringoplasty techniques, namely hyaluronic acid fat graft myringoplasty (HAFGM), fat graft myringoplasty (FGM), and temporal fascia for the closure of different sizes and sites of tympanic membrane perforations. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of patients who had undergone a type 1 tympanoplasty operat...