Chronic Secretory Otitis media – Long-Term Results after Treatment with Grommets

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In a 3-year material of patients treated with grommets for chronic secretory otitis media, including 175 ears in 108 children, a follow-up investigation was performed after an average observation time of 29 months. At the follow-up examination the patients were classified according to the position and mobility of the ear drum and the finding at tympanometry. 43% of the patients were found ‘cured’, 35% ‘hardly cured’ and 20 % ‘not cured’. In none of these groups was the hearing, measured by TI, affected. 2 % of the patients had developed chronic suppurative otitis media. There was no significant difference between drainage time in the ‘cured’, ‘hardly cured’ and ‘not cured’ groups, neither of a number of other parameters which were thought to influence the late result. The only positive finding was a greater number of recurrent ear infections before the treatment in the ‘hardly cured’ and ‘not cured’ groups than in the ‘cured’ group.

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