(1) Otalgia and otorrhea responded at a mean of 6 and 4 days, respectively, following the initiation of therapy.
(2) The patient, a 13-year-old boy, presented with a complaint of persistent otalgia.
(3) Thus, there is a need for more careful examination of the ear in all cases of acute otalgia.
(4) Sucralfate significantly lowered postoperative throat pain, otalgia, and trismus.
(5) Hearing loss (sensorineural, conductive, or mixed), otalgia, otorrhea, and even gross tissue extrusion herald this condition.
(6) The man had noticed severe otalgia and sudden progressive deafness of the right ear approximately 2 weeks prior to admission.
(7) The authors report the case of an eight-year-old girl hospitalised for severe headache with paroxysmal left otalgia, vomiting, aprexia, paralysis of the left 6 th cranial nerve and slight left facial weakness.
(8) A 69-year-old man presented with a three-month history of otalgia and tenderness of the right ear and a one-week history of a painful right parotid swelling.
(9) Only 4 of the 22 mothers (18%) with crying infants attributed the crying to ear pain, yet the findings support the explanation of otalgia due to inadequate middle ear ventilation.
(10) A 42-year-old man presented with a two-week history of right-sided otalgia, deafness and nocturnal tinnitus.
(11) Middle ear effusion as shown by tympanometry was not associated with a previous history of otitis media in the child but was associated with recent symptoms of respiratory infection or otalgia.
(12) The clinical features of facial nerve neuromas (schwannomas) depend on their location and include facial nerve weakness or paralysis, otalgia or facial pain, hearing loss or imbalance, and loss of taste sensation.
(13) EAP serves as a most helpful additional treatment in cases of frontal sinusitis, various kinds of neuralgia, cervical otalgia, as well as sialoses of obscure or chronic genesis.
(14) Five days before admission, she experienced right otalgia and right facial pain and consulted an otolaryngologist of our hospital, who diagnosed the illness as acute parotitis and laryngopharyngitis.
(15) The apparatus of own design was applied also for analgesia for operations on the middle ear through the external meatus, and in the treatment of ear buzzing and otalgia of unknown origin.
(16) The clinical perilymph fistula (PF) syndrome can consist of any combination of the following: tinnitus, deafness, phonophobia, vertigo, ataxia, otalgia, facial palsy, headache, diplopia, blackouts, psychological distress.
(17) The salient features of the disease are: unilateral protracted otalgia and purulent otorrhea in an elderly patient.
(18) Of these 32 per cent had otalgia and 31 per cent reported episodes of aural discharge.
(19) Morbidity included persistent minor hypesthesia in five patients, persistent minor dysesthesias in three, persistent minor weakness in three, aseptic meningitis in one, transient sixth nerve palsy in one, and transient otalgia in three.
(20) Otic pneumocystosis typically presents as a unilateral polypoid mass, and it is clinically manifested as otalgia, hearing loss, or, sometimes, otorrhea without evidence of current respiratory disease or previous Pneumocystis pneumonia.
Otitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) The unit was used to treat 110 patients with chronic purulent middle otitis.
(4) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(5) In severely affected children who have chronic otitis media with effusion resistant to medical therapy, adenoidectomy is an effective treatment.
(6) The material consisted of serially sectioned eustachian tubes of 26 normal temporal bones and four pathologic temporal bones, three of them with simple chronic otitis media and one with cholesteatoma.
(7) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(8) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(9) The use of homografts appears to be a promising method of repairing the sequelae of chronic otitis.
(10) Three cases of malignant external otitis with varied clinical causes are presented.
(11) A review of the 20th century English-language literature has produced a total of 320 cases of tuberculous otitis media or otomastoiditis, of which a surprising 93 cases have been reported in the 5-year period 1986-1990.
(12) The rate of surgery reached a level, among 3-year-old children in particular (25.0 per 1000 cases of otitis among boys, 23.9 per 1000 cases of otitis among girls), that some authors have termed "epidemic."
(13) These infections include chronic otitis media, chronic sinusitis and mastoiditis, chronic recurrent tonsillitis and lung abscesses.
(14) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
(15) The major pathogens causing acute otitis media (AOM) are Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, with Moraxella catarrhalis, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus less frequently isolated.
(16) The mothers of children who experienced six or more episodes of otitis media in the first 2 years of life rated their children as significantly more demanding at age two and at follow-up 6 months later than did the mothers of children who experienced no more than one episode of the illness.
(17) Amoxicillin-clavulanate potassium is effective in vitro against all bacterial pathogens causing acute otitis media and has been reported to be effective when given twice daily for urinary tract infections, acute otitis media and respiratory tract infections.
(18) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
(19) If a chronic inflammation in the middle ear is suspected, HRCT is the study of choice to differentiate cholesteatoma from chronic otitis media.
(20) Although significantly higher than in uninfected children, auditory canal temperatures of children with acute otitis media reflected elevated rectal temperatures and not differences in auditory canal temperatures between ears.