Full Description
This textbook presents a broad approach to otitis media ranging from the basic to the advanced, and comprehensively reviews the diagnosis, treatment, management, and complications of patients with infections of the middle ear (OM). It has been proven that children whose hearing has been affected by otitis media suffer academically. Since their hearing is impaired, their scholastic performance deteriorates, leading to multiple health and social problems. This in turn has a cascading effect on the child's ability to perform and cope. Quite often these problems are silent and go unrecognized and misdiagnosed. The socioeconomic impact of otitis media is profound and can deeply and adversely impact a child's growth and development if not diagnosed correctly and in a timely manner.
The textbook starts by covering the basics, including chapters on classification and terminology, anatomy and embryological development of the inner ear, the immune system and the inner ear, inflammation and infection, genetic predisposition, current treatment strategies including surgical and non-surgical approaches, and hearing devices. Following chapters review the current and future state of the art in OM, including chapters on tympanoplasty, temporal bone cholesteatomas, advanced hearing and balance evaluations, advanced imaging evaluations, and mastoidectomy.
Textbook of Otitis Media will be a go-to resource for otorhinolaryngology residents and fellows, pediatricians, ENT surgeons, consultants, nurses, and audiologists.
Contents
Definitions, terminology, and classification.- Otitis media: BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUNDAMENTALS.- Otitis media and human efforts to deal with it through time.- Development of the Middle Ear and Functional anatomy of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid complex.- Normal Histology of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid Complex: The mucoperiosteum concept.- Understanding the Aeration Avenues of the Middle Ear with the aid of the endoscope.- Regulated balance of pressure variations in the temporal pneumatic spaces.- Role of immunity in the development of otitis media.- When to suspect and how to evaluate immune deficiencies in otitis media.- Genetics and Otitis Media.- Predictive medicine in otitis media.- Importance of Animal studies in the understanding of otitis media.- Critical Appraisal of published research in otitis media or how to sort the wheat from the chaff!.- Translational Histopathology in Otitis Media: The real evidence-based medicine!.- Patulous Eustachian Tube and the differential diagnosis of Autophony.- Office examination in otitis media.- Non-surgical strategies to restore middle ear aeration.- Drug delivery across the intact tympanic membrane: methods, mechanisms and potential impact.- Viral otitis media AND ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA and Recurrent acute otitis media. An evidence-based approach.- The microbiology of otitis media, biofilms and its implication in the clinical treatment.- Otitis Media with Effusion: Pathophysiology, clinical picture and management.- Biochemistry of pathogenesis of OM-an update.- Adhesive otitis media.- Ventilation Tubes.- POST-TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE Otorrhea AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS.- Vaccination policies in otitis media.- Managing risk factors in otitis media.- Otitis media in special populations.- Early in life otitis media and its impact in hearing, speech development and central auditory processing.- Balance and otitis media.- The use of topical treatment and middle-inner ear interaction.- Silent otitis media and subtle complications.- Complications of Otitis Media limited to within the temporal bone.- Intracranial complications of otitis media.- Basic imaging and normal temporal bone sections.- Evaluation and auditory rehabilitation in chronic otitis media (Com).- Pathogenesis of Chronic Otitis media and the continuum: The basics, further and beyond.- Chronic otitis media without cholesteatoma.- Tympanic membrane perforations and Tympanoplasty: new profiles, new strategies.- Ossicular Pathology in Chronic Otitis media.- Tympanic membrane retractions: pathophysiology, classification and management.- Temporal Bone Cholesteatomas: The full picture.- Progress in Cholesteatoma Research.- Advanced Hearing and Balance evaluation in otitis media.- RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE TEMPORAL BONE IN CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA.- Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal bone and Middle ear surgery.- Endoscopic Anatomy of the Temporal Bone.- Surgical treatment of chronic otitis media: menu of solutions.- Tympanoplasty: the underlay technique step by step and the complex tympanosplasty.- Tympanoplasty: the overlay technique step by step.- Tympanoplasty: the inlay technique step by step.- Medio-lateral tympanoplasty for anterior or subtotal TM perforation.- Flexible tympanoplasty: pathology guided pathogenesis oriented middle ear surgery.- Principles of surgical management of cholesteatoma.- Mastoidectomy going down or keeping up: a 60-years old unsolved dilemma.- Simple mastoidectomy: indications and techniques.- Canal wall Up Tympanomastoidectomy.- Canal Wall Down Tympanomastoidectomy.- Endoscopic Assisted Canal Wall Up TM: the combined approach redefined.- Intact Bridge Tympanomastoidectomy.- Radical Mastoidectomy: Indications, technique and pitfalls.- Local management of the Mastoidectomy cavity.- Reconstruction of the Mastoid cavity.- Is there a role for the subtotal Petrosectomy in the treatment of chronic otitis media?
