Otitis externa. Penicillin drops applied to the external meatus appear to me to have no value at all. In otitis externa it must be almost impossible by such means to maintain a sufficient concentration of the drug in contact with the infected tissues. At all events, among some thirty cases I have seen none in which it has given any good result : and in several I had the impression that the appl...

The Epidemiology of otitis media with spontaneous perforation of the tympanic membrane and associated nasopharyngeal carriage of bacterial otopathogens was analysed in a county in Catalonia (Spain) with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) not included in the immunization programme at study time. A prospective, multicentre study was performed in 10 primary care centres and 2 hospitals (June 2...

vestigated the association of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and diseases of the Background – A systematic quantitative review was conducted of evidence relating ear, nose and throat (ENT), and the evidence has been the subject of periodic narrative reparental smoking to acute otitis media, recurrent otitis media, middle ear effuviews. Only two studies have attempted a quantitative met...

OBJECTIVE To analyze immunocompetent cells as well as 2 factors involved in inflammation and also thought to be involved in bone remodeling-interleukin 6 (IL-6) and inducible nitric oxide synthase in the human middle ear, including the tympanic membrane. DESIGN Biopsy specimens were obtained from the human middle ear and tympanic membrane during surgery. Using an immunohistochemical technique...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the air deflation pressure of the eustachian tubes in patients with tympanic membrane perforations due to various forms of otitis media and those with myringotomy or blast injury perforations. METHODS: The study group consisted of 321 patients (407 ears) aged 4 months to 91 years with tympanic membrane perforations due to otitis media (318 ears), blast injury (27), and myr...

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CONTEXT Prescribing practices for otitis media are not consistent with current evidence-based recommendations. OBJECTIVE To determine whether point-of-care evidence delivery regarding the use and duration of antibiotics for otitis media decreases the duration of therapy from 10 days and decreases the frequency of prescriptions written. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Primary ...

The species named Alloiococcus otitis by Aguirre and Collins (1, 2) should be renamed Aloiococcus otitidis. Rule 12c of the Bacteriological Code (3) states that a specific epithet must be treated as an adjective, as a substantive in apposition in the nominative case, or as a substantive in the genitive case. "A. otitis" would belong to the second category ("otitis," the nominative case, meaning...

Acute otitis media in children is very common with an estimated incidence of 85 % within the first year of life. Children usually present with fever, ear fullness, ear discharge and conductive hearing loss. The most common etiologies of acute otitis media in children are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. The diagnosis is based on clinical examination a...