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Postgraduate Medicine, 2015
Acute otitis media (AOM) is a common problem facing general practitioners, paediatricians and otolaryngologists. This article reviews the aetiopathogenesis, epidemiology, presentation, natural history, complications and management of AOM. The literature was reviewed by using the PubMed search engine and entering a combination of terms including 'AOM', '
H. Atkinson +2 more
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Acute otitis media (AOM) is a common problem facing general practitioners, paediatricians and otolaryngologists. This article reviews the aetiopathogenesis, epidemiology, presentation, natural history, complications and management of AOM. The literature was reviewed by using the PubMed search engine and entering a combination of terms including 'AOM', '
H. Atkinson +2 more
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Acute Otitis Media in Children.
BMJ clinical evidence, 2017BACKGROUND Acute otitis media is a common childhood infection. Prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment are very important. OBJECTIVE To review in depth the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, complications and ...
A. Leung, A. Wong
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Differentiating Acute Otitis Media and Acute Mastoiditis in Hospitalized Children [PDF]
Current Allergy and Asthma Reports, 2016 Acute otitis media is a common infection in children. Most acute otitis media episodes can be treated at an outpatient setting with antimicrobials, or only expectant observation.
A. Laulajainen-Hongisto +2 more
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Pediatrics In Review, 1996
Definitions Acute otitis media with effusion (AOME) is a clinically identifiable, suppurative infection of the middle ear. The infection has a relatively sudden onset and short duration. It denotes inflammation of the mucoperiosteal lining of the middle ear. The inflamed tympanic membrane (TM) is bulging, opacified, or both.
S, Maxson, T, Yamauchi
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Definitions Acute otitis media with effusion (AOME) is a clinically identifiable, suppurative infection of the middle ear. The infection has a relatively sudden onset and short duration. It denotes inflammation of the mucoperiosteal lining of the middle ear. The inflamed tympanic membrane (TM) is bulging, opacified, or both.
S, Maxson, T, Yamauchi
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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2014
One in 4 children will have at least 1 episode of acute otitis media (AOM) by age 10 years. AOM results from infection of fluid that has become trapped in the middle ear. The bacteria that most often cause AOM are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis.
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One in 4 children will have at least 1 episode of acute otitis media (AOM) by age 10 years. AOM results from infection of fluid that has become trapped in the middle ear. The bacteria that most often cause AOM are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis.
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ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA IN CHILDREN
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1996Acute otitis media (AOM) is the most common reason parents bring children into the primary care physician's office. It is diagnosed by clinical symptoms of otalgia and often fever and irritability and by clinical otoscopy. Organisms common to the nasopharynx usually cause AOM. Many episodes of AOM resolve spontaneously. Because it is uncertain how many
Rosenfeld, J. A., Clarity, G.
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Influenza vaccines for preventing acute otitis media in infants and children.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015BACKGROUND Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common infectious diseases in children. It has been reported that 64% of infants have an episode of AOM by the age of six months and 86% by one year.
M. N. Norhayati, J. Ho, M. Azman
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Acute Otitis Media in Children
Postgraduate Medicine, 1969The usual acute otitis media in a child progresses by distinct and reversible stages. Cultures are practical only after rupture or surgical incision of the tympanic membrane. Myringotomy is almost never necessary. One injection of a mixture of potassium penicillin G, procaine penicillin G, and benzathine penicillin G is effective treatment.
Gunnar B. Stickler, Lawrence W. DeSanto
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Symptoms of acute otitis media
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1998The decision to seek medical advise for children during upper respiratory infections is largely based on the parental assumption that the child's symptoms are related to acute otitis media. The symptoms related to acute otitis media, however, are considered nonspecific.Altogether 857 healthy day-care children (mean age, 3.7 years) were followed up for ...
Marjo Niemelä +4 more
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Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2000
The increase in drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae has led to concerns about antibiotic resistance. Otitis media is the leading indication for antibiotic use in the United States. Evidence suggests that antibiotics do provide benefit to children with documented acute otitis media, and that carefully selected children may respond to shorter courses
Sharon Balter, Scott F. Dowell
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The increase in drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae has led to concerns about antibiotic resistance. Otitis media is the leading indication for antibiotic use in the United States. Evidence suggests that antibiotics do provide benefit to children with documented acute otitis media, and that carefully selected children may respond to shorter courses
Sharon Balter, Scott F. Dowell
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