Volume : 6, Issue : 8, August - 2017

PREVALENCE OF OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION IN CHILDREN WITH OBSTRUCTIVE ADENOID DISEASE.

Lavanya Karanam, N. Junior Sundresh

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#2E74B5;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:TA">Background and objective</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#4F81BD;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:TA">: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">To assess the prevalence of otitis media in children with adenoid hypertrophy. <b>Methods</b>: A case control study carried out at a multispeciality hospital between may and august 2017.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-bidi-font-family:&#10;Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;&#10;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"> One hundred children were enrolled in the study, 50 children in the study group and 50 children in the control group. All the 100 children underwent tympanometry.</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Results</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">:</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;&#10;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Data analysis was performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The prevalence of OME in children with adenoid hypertrophy at a multispeciality hospital is 67.3% in the study group and in the control group is 15.4 % (95% CI 4.4 to 29.3).</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Conclusion</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-bidi-font-family:Perpetua;color:#4F81BD;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">: Otitis media with effusion is more prevalent in patients with adenoid hypertrophy when compared with patients without adenoid hypertrophy</span></p>