otitis media with effusion/*therapy
Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing Longterm Sulfonamide Therapy to Ventilation Tubes for Otitis Media With Effusion
... Outcome variables are treatment success rates, hearing thresholds, recurrent acute otitis media episodes, and side effects of medication or complications of VT placement.. One hundred tw[r] ...
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Pharmacologic Compliance with Antibiotic Therapy for Acute Otitis Media: Influence on Subsequent Middle Ear Effusion
... The M lutea test organism was sensitive to any antibiotic used in the treatment of otitis media, even when the urine containing an antibiotic was stored for pro- longed periods in the fr[r] ...
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Oral administration of herbal medicines for the treatment of otitis media with effusion: protocol for a systematic review
... We will include those trials using the oral administration of herbal medicine alone or as a combined therapy of the oral administration of herbal medicine with a con- ventional therapy versus the same ...
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MOMENT – Management of Otitis Media with Effusion in Cleft Palate : protocol for a systematic review of the literature and identification of a core outcome set using a Delphi survey
... This diversity has been illustrated by a recent review that aimed to identify core outcome sets (COSs) for trials of treatment of childhood conditions. The authors categorised outcomes measured in clinical trials for a ...
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A Systematic Review of Management of Otitis Media with Effusion in Children
... Medical therapy has a limited role in the management of OME. Two Cochrane Systematic Reviews showed no benefit of long term oral steroids used alone or in combination with an antibiotic or when antihistamines and ...
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Pathogenesis and Microbiology of Otitis Media with Effusion in Children
... acute otitis media, eustachian tube dysfunction is nearly universal in otitis media with ...ear effusion to ...the effusion; and, pos- sibly, an unfavorable pressure gradient ...
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The importance of integration of stakeholder views in core outcome set development : otitis media with effusion in children with cleft palate
... The number of outcomes measured in an individual study varied with a median of 6 out- comes (range 1–14 outcomes) per paper. Outcomes related to resource use were considered to be outside the scope of the COS. ...
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Auditory Deprivation Caused By Early Otitis Media with Effusion
... Finally, the results presented in this study demonstrate that the fluctuating nature of OME may strongly compromise the nor- mal pattern of hearing development, at least with respect to the figure-ground ability. ...
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Original Article A systematic review of adenoidectomy in the treatment of otitis media with effusion in children
... Two authors (X-Y Tian and M-Q Wang) indepen- dently assessed all studies for quality using the Cochrane bias risk assessment tools, which allowed a total score from 0 to 6 points (6 reflecting the highest quality). We ...
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Grommets for Otitis Media With Effusion in Children With Cleft Palate: A Systematic Review
... speech therapy than those who had not undergone the ...ear effusion, and in the control group a single myringotomy without tube in- sertion was performed for the tempo- rary drainage of effusion when ...
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Comparative Treatment Trial of Augmentin Versus Cefaclor for Acute Otitis Media with Effusion
... Three variables were used to randomly assign patients to cefaclor or Augmentin therapy: (1) uni- lateral or bilateral acute otitis media with effusion,.. (2) frequency of past acute otit[r] ...
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Effect of oral supplementation of zinc on treatment of otitis media with effusion
... In other studies beneficial effects of zinc has been reported [18-19,28-29].Therefore the effi- cacy of oral zinc for upper respiratory infec- tions remains in controversy. The mechanisms by which zinc may affect the OME ...
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Otitis Media With Effusion
... on otitis media with effusion (OME) provides evidence-based rec- ommendations on diagnosing and managing OME in ...“Otitis Media With Effusion in Young Chil- dren,” which was ...
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A Longitudinal Study of Otitis Media With Effusion Among 2- to 5-Year-Old African-American Children in Child Care
... In our initial description of the middle ear disease experience of this group of children, we emphasized not only the high prevalence of MEE in early infancy but the high rate of spontaneous resolution between 18 to 24 ...
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Adjuvant adenoidectomy in persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion: hearing and revision surgery outcomes through 2 years in the TARGET randomised trial
... Chapman, DF, Parker, AJ, Curry, AR, Williams, RG, Morrissey, MSC, Geddes, NK, Zarod, AP, Willatt, DJ, Proops, D, Pearman, K, Robb, PJ, MacKee, I, Law, K, Casey, M, Megarry, A, Smith, L, Smethurst, H, Pearce, G, Hook, P, ...
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Surgical Treatments for Otitis Media With Effusion: A Systematic Review
... with effusion and for improving hearing at 24 months (better ear standard mean difference of – ...to effusion or hearing be- cause outcome results were ...
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Role of adenoid hypertrophy in causation of chronic middle ear effusion
... In the present study of the 30 patients with chronic middle ear effusion, presence or absence of lateral hypertrophy of adenoid tissue over the eustachian tube orifice was noted. 60% of the study population had ...
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Pediatric Residents’ Clinical Diagnostic Accuracy of Otitis Media
... The presence of an MEE is fundamental to the de- velopment of AOM, and the lack of an effusion makes the diagnosis of AOM impossible. Eustachian tube dysfunction results in decreased ventilation and a negative ...
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Otitis Media in Early Childhood in Relation to Children’s School-Age Language and Academic Skills
... In this study, both descriptive and inferential analyses tested the associations between OME and/or hearing loss, quality of the home environment, and children’s language and academic out- comes. Because both OME and ...
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Otitis Media in Early Childhood and Cognitive, Academic, and Classroom Performance of the School-Aged Child
... the number of days with otitis media with effusion in the first 3 years of life and performance on measures of intelligence and academic achievement during the third year of school. Howe[r] ...
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