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The prevalence of Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction in adults reaches 1%. It causes a feeling of fullness in the ear, otalgia and hearing loss and can lead to recurrent acute otitis media, development of chronic otitis media with effusion and cholesteatoma. Endoscopic transnasal balloon ET dilatation is a novel surgical technique for ET dysfunction. The main goal is to restore ET function by dilation its cartilaginous part leading to better ventilation and drainage of the middle ear. However, its real effect in the treatment of particular subgroups of patients with ET dysfunction remains unknown. Patients are mostly evaluated as one group. Adults with chronic ET dysfunction will be strictly divided into particular subgroups and included in the study. Subgroups will be compared in order to identify treatment effect in particular subgroups.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the Hummingbird® for the placement of ear tubes in children undergoing tympanostomy tube placement in an otolaryngology clinic using local anesthetic.
This is a randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of the EarPopper device (EP) in the reduction of episodes of acute otitis media (AOM) in children with recurrent otitis media. The control arm will be observational. The intervention arm will have the EP used.
The objective of this study was continued commercial evaluation of the intraoperative safety and performance of the H-TTS for the placement of ventilation tubes in pediatric patients undergoing a tympanostomy procedure under moderate sedation and local anesthetic.
Otitis media with effusion (OME) is defined as effusion in the middle ear without signs and symptoms of an acute infection. It is a leading cause of hearing impairment in children, and its early and proper management can avoid hearing and speech impairment, which can cause developmental delay in children.Although many conditions such as enlarged adenoids, cleft palate, Down syndrome, Kartagener syndrome, and nasopharyngeal neoplasm are related to the role of eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction in the pathogenesis of OME, allergic, immunologic, and infectious factors have also been claimed. Treatment of OME is still a controversial issue, as conventional treatment approaches fail to provide satisfactory and permanent relief of otologic symptoms.There is lack of proven effectiveness of the commonly given treatments, such as antibiotics, decongestants, and antihistamines, which are potentially harmful and have disadvantages. Few in those studies,investigated topical intranasal steroid for OME treatment,and in those studies, the duration of intranasal steroid application was short and there was no hearing evaluation.
ear swabs will be collected from 120 patients with established CSOM at the ear-nose-throat (ENT) outpatient clinic at the Ziv medical center, and 120 swabs will be taken from children with Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) undergoing elective tympanostomy tube insertion, serving as a control group. Ear swabs will be frozen at -80C until analysis.DNA will be purified from ear swabs, and amplified by PCR so that a barcoded 16S rRNA library from each subject will be generated. Using correlation analysis, we will compare between microbial compositions in chronic otorrhea patients vs. control groups.An additional ear swab will be collected from patients and cultured to test antibiotic resistance.
Adenotomy, together with tonsillectomy, belongs among the most frequently performed surgical procedures in paediatric patients. These surgical procedures are associated with the second highest incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) (following strabism correction surgery) in paediatric surgery. PONV is associated, apart from the discomfort for the child, with a number of complications: dehydration, metabolic disruption or danger of haemorrhage and aspiration of the gastric content. Adenotomy is a typologically completely different surgical procedure, with a different target structure of the surgery, and the length and invasiveness of the procedure. Thus, it is possible to expect a difference in PONV incidence when compared to tonsillectomy. Adenotomy is a surgical procedure performed namely in children of the pre-school age. This is associated, among others, also with the problem of objectivization of post-operative nausea, which is very difficult to verbalize in small children, being a subjective feeling of body discomfort. It is possible to expect that the overall incidence of PONV will be significantly underestimated.
A prospective, single-arm, multicenter study to evaluate effectiveness and safety of Tymbion iontophoresis and tympanostomy tube placement using the Tula Iontophoresis and Tube Delivery Systems for children in an office setting.
Detection of taste changes in Acute Otitis Media (AOM) patients.