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chronic otitis media

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Chronic otitis media
Inflammation of the middle ear with signs of infection lasting three months or longer.

chronic otitis media
Middle ear infection ENT Recurrent middle ear inflammation due to mechanical trauma, chemicals, allergies, pathogens; COM may follow persistent acute OM, extend from mastoiditis or is linked to fluid build-up with tympanic membrane rupture or damage to auditory ossicles


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A 53-year-old man presented with chronic otitis media in the right ear and a cholesteatoma in the right ear.
All of the children attending each participating center were considered eligible unless they had an underlying chronic illness (immunologic diseases; neoplastic disorders; renal, cardiac, hepatic, or hematologic diseases; bronchodysplasia; Down syndrome; chronic otitis media with effusion) or even a mild acute upper or lower respiratory tract infection at the time of enrollment.
Persistent fluid in the middle ear and chronic otitis media can reduce a child's heating at a time that is critical for speech and language development.
 
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