Tympanometry with otoendoscopy helps diagnose Acute Otitis Media and OME: Study
Tympanometry plus otoendoscopy together greatly increase the chances of detecting acute otitis media (AOM) and otitis media with effusion (OME), describe Mohd. Aftab and colleagues from the Department of ENT and HNS, SRN Hospital, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The research has recently been published in the Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery.
The tympanic membrane (TM) undergoes a number of pathological changes in middle ear disease which can be detected by a video-otoendoscope. Middle ear disease is also accompanied by changes in middle ear pressure which can be assessed by tympanometry.
Hence, the authors conducted the present prospective study in a tertiary health care centre in North India, where they examined a total of 75 patients with AOM or OME , all of whom were selected from the population visiting the ENT Outpatient Department. They were included over 1 year where each patient was followed up for 21 days.
The objectives of this study were to find the correlation between video-otoendoscopy and tympanometry in acute middle ear infections and to deduce which of the two is more efficient and reliable for early diagnosis.
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