ABSTRACT
This study was designed to compare the efficacy of various methods of transmeatal aerodynamical otoendoscopy based on the examination of 60 patients presenting with acute suppurative otitis media (CSOM), chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), exudative and adhesive otitis media. Transmeatal aerodynamical otoendoscopy was performed with the use of otobarohydroendoscope. The results of the study demonstrate the advantages of the transmeatal aerodynamical otoendoscopic technique for the examination of the patients presenting with different clinical forms of otitis media.
Subject(s)
Ear Canal/pathology , Otitis Media with Effusion , Otitis Media, Suppurative , Otoscopes/standards , Otoscopy/methods , Tympanic Membrane Perforation , Acute Disease , Adult , Aged, 80 and over , Child, Preschool , Chronic Disease , Comparative Effectiveness Research , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Male , Otitis Media with Effusion/complications , Otitis Media with Effusion/diagnosis , Otitis Media with Effusion/physiopathology , Otitis Media, Suppurative/complications , Otitis Media, Suppurative/diagnosis , Otitis Media, Suppurative/physiopathology , Pressure , Tympanic Membrane Perforation/diagnosis , Tympanic Membrane Perforation/etiology , Tympanic Membrane Perforation/physiopathologyABSTRACT
This study was designed to estimate the efficacy of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic techniques for diagnostics and treatment of otitis interna and otitis media and for the evacuation of bacterial films and clots from the cavities and canals of the middle ear. These methods were realized with the use of an otobarohydroscope and otobarohydroendoscope. The data obtained confirm that both the aerodynamic and the hydrodynamic techniques provide an efficacious tool for the destruction of bacterial films and clots and their evacuation from the cavities and canals of the middle ear.
Subject(s)
Middle Ear Ventilation/methods , Otitis Media with Effusion , Otoscopy/methods , Therapeutic Irrigation/methods , Adolescent , Aged, 80 and over , Bacterial Physiological Phenomena , Biomechanical Phenomena , Child, Preschool , Ear, Middle/microbiology , Ear, Middle/physiopathology , Female , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods , Male , Middle Aged , Otitis Media with Effusion/diagnosis , Otitis Media with Effusion/microbiology , Otitis Media with Effusion/therapy , Otoscopes , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The article presents a novel method of topical diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic otitis media purulenta with perforation in the tympanic membrane; describes indications and contraindications for the method application, its technique with use of two devices: otobarohydroscope and transmeatal catheter. The treatment was performed in a group of patients with acute otitis media purulenta at the stage of tympanic membrane perforation complicated with exudative serous mastoiditis. Transmeatal controlled barohydrodynamic therapy proved its high efficacy in topical diagnosis and therapy of patients with the above condition.