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J Laryngol Otol
August 2020
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, 'P & A Kyriakou' Children's Hospital of Athens, Greece.
Objective: Bibliographic data for the management of acute mastoiditis in infants aged six months or less are very limited. This study investigated the presenting symptomatology, diagnostic and treatment options, and final outcomes in this age group.
Method: A retrospective review was conducted of all infants aged six months or less suffering from acute mastoiditis, admitted to our department between 2007 and 2017.
Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2017
University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Grigore T. Popa" Department of pediatrics, "Sf. Maria" Children's Hospital Department of Microbiology, "Sf. Maria" Children's Hospital Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital, Iasi, România.
Rationale: Salmonella enterica subsp arizonae is a common gut inhabitant of reptiles (snakes are the most common reservoir, but it also occurs in turtles). Alhough human cases owing to this organism are exceedingly rare, it may occasionally infect young infants and immunocompromised individuals with a history of intimate associations with reptiles. Our case is the 20th one among the infections with S arizonae in children, but the 2nd one of otitis and the first of mastoiditis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBratisl Lek Listy
August 2008
Children's ENT Department, Children's University Hospital, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common infections in children. Recently it was noticed that there is a marked increase in relapse of severe acute otitis media in children. There is also an increase in number of hospitalized children due to severe AOM, with etiological agent resistant to antibiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngorhinootologie
July 2005
Städtisches Klinikum Dresden-Friedrichstadt. de
Background: During the last years the classical signs of the acute mastoiditis have changed. Aim of the following study was to examine the change of symptoms as well as the change of incidence.
Methods/patients: The records of 113 children who received mastoid surgery due to acute mastoiditis were retrospectively investigated.
Laryngorhinootologie
October 2000
Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Dresden.
Background: High-imaging modalities, antibiotics and improved microsurgical procedures have decreased morbidity and mortality of intracranial otogenic complications in the western hemisphere nowadays. However, they do occur and the resulting mortality is still about 10%.
Patients And Results: We report our experiences with 22 patients, who were treated for intracranial otogenic complications (15 x meningitis, 5 x brain abscess, 1 x subdural empyema, 1 x Gradenigo's syndrome) due to cerebrospinal fluid leak in 2 patients, chronic otitis in 9 patients (5 with cholesteatoma), acute otitis media in 11 patients, between 1981 and September 1999.
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