Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET) in children: a retrospective multicenter analysis
Generation of pilot data for planning of prospective BET-studies for treatment of dilatory Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction in children. - Study Design: - Retrospective multicenter analysis. - Setting: - Nine ENT departments at tertiary care teaching hospitals. -...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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August 2020
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Otology & neurotology
Year: 2020, Volume: 41, Issue: 7, Pages: e921-e933 |
| ISSN: | 1537-4505 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/MAO.0000000000002789 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1097/MAO.0000000000002789 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://journals.lww.com/otology-neurotology/Abstract/2020/08000/Balloon_Eustachian_Tuboplasty__BET__in_Children__A.46.aspx 
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| Author Notes: | Matthias Tisch, Susanne Maier, Serena Preyer, Savvas Kourtidis, Goetz Lehnerdt, Sebastian Winterhoff, Carsten V. Dalchow, Friederike Mueller-Jenckel, Holger H. Sudhoff, Stefanie Schröder, Assen Koitschev, Peter Amrhein, Karl-Ludwig Bruchhage, Anke Leichtle, Christian Güldner, Juergen Grulich-Henn, Katrin Jensen, Moritz Pohl, Peter K. Plinkert, Sara Euteneuer |
| Summary: | Generation of pilot data for planning of prospective BET-studies for treatment of dilatory Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction in children. - Study Design: - Retrospective multicenter analysis. - Setting: - Nine ENT departments at tertiary care teaching hospitals. - Patients: - 4-12-year-old children with chronic otitis media with effusion (COME) for more than 3 months or more than 3 episodes of acute otitis media during the last year, having failed standard surgical therapy at least once. - Intervention: - BET with or without paracentesis, ventilation tube insertion, or tympanoplasty. - Main outcome measures: - Tympanic membrane appearance, tympanometry, and hearing threshold. - Results: - Two hundred ninety-nine ETs of 167 children were treated. Mean age was 9.1 years (95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 8.7-9.4 yr). In 249 ears (83.3%), COME and/or retraction of the tympanic membrane were the indication for BET. Median hearing threshold was 20 dB HL (95% CI: 0-46 dB). One hundred fifty-five ears (51.8%, 95% CI: 46.1-57.4%) showed a tympanogram type B. Treatment consisted of BET without other interventions (“BET-only”) in 70 children, 128 ears. Median length of follow-up for 158 (94.6%) children was 2.6 months (95% CI: 0.3-16.1 mo). After treatment, the tympanic membrane appeared normal in 196 ears (65.6%, 95% CI: 60.0-70.8%, p < 0.001). Median hearing threshold improved to 10 dB HL (95% CI: 0-45 dB, p < 0.001). Tympanograms shifted toward type A and C (type A: 39.1%, 95% CI: 33.7-44.7, p < 0.001). These improvements were also observed in subgroup analyses of “BET-only” treatment and the indication of “COME” respectively. - Conclusion: - BET is improving a variety of dilatory ET dysfunction-related ear diseases in children. This study provides detailed data for design and planning of prospective studies on BET in children. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 03.11.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1537-4505 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/MAO.0000000000002789 |