A survey of ear, nose and throat disorders in rural India

Singh, Amar; Kumar, Sudesh

doi:10.1007/s12070-010-0027-3

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“…For Nigeria, the prevalence of diseases of ear, nose and throat were 62.7%, 23.0% and 9.6%, respectively [7]. In Senegal, the rates were 22.8%, 54.6% and 22.4% [8] and in India, the rates were 36.6%, 23.5% and 16.58% respectively [9].…”

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Pattern of ear nose and throat diaseses in a tertiary hospital of Dhaka city

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Background and objectives: The magnitude of health problems related to ear, nose and throat (ENT) in Bangladesh has not been estimated in a larger scale and very little is known about the prevalence and types of ENT diseases. Some studies, however, addressed the prevalence of otitis among school children and very few of them reported hearing defect. This study aims to assess the overall types of ENT diseases encountered by the otolaryngologists at a referral or tertiary hospital.

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Pattern of ear nose and throat diaseses in a tertiary hospital of Dhaka city

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“…It may be further broken down into non-cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media (NCCOM) and cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media (CCOM) according to the absence or presence of a cholesteatoma [1]. Non-cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media (NCCOM) is very common condition in India [2], with resultant persistent and broad tympanic membrane perforations. The major symptom these patients present is intermittent otorrhea, usually associated to upper airway infections or a past history of extrinsic contamination (swimming in pools or ocean).…”

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“…The otorrhea is typically painless, without giving off foul smell, together with hearing loss. By doing otoscopy one commonly finds a perforation in the pars tensa of the tympanic membrane of varied size and shape, the middle ear mucosa has an almost normal appearance, except for some degrees of hyperemia [2].…”

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Outcome of Single-Sitting Bilateral Type 1 Tympanoplasty in Indian Patients

Raghuwanshi¹,

Asati

2013

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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Tympanoplasty is the standard and well established procedure for closure of tympanic membrane perforations. Traditionally each ear drum is taken up for grafting sequentially in two different sittings, which leads to huge increase in operation cost, time and discomfort to the patient. Since, simultaneous bilateral tympanic membrane grafting could be quite safe and helpful to the patients, we performed the same in 32 patients with bilateral (64) ear drum perforations due to chronic suppurative otitis media. All patients had a conductive hearing loss corresponding to the size and site of the perforation, without evidence of ossicular chain defect or any other middle or inner ear pathology. The post-aural route was approached for the grafting in 27 ears, endaural in 22 perforations and the remaining 15 small perforations were done via endomeatal approach. All the ears were operated using the Underlay technique. The majority of the grafts were harvested from temporalis fascia (59 grafts), remaining five were obtained from tragal perichondrium. All the patients were subjected to regular follow-up evaluation and audiometry for up to 1 year after the surgery. Six ears showed incomplete recovery with residual perforation, although in two of them the tissue regeneration over next few weeks led to entire shutting down of the defect. Thus, the graft take rate was 93.75 % without any retraction pockets or displaced grafts. We did not encounter any iatrogenic sensorineural hearing loss. Thus the results from our study reinforce the safety of the single-step procedure and question the traditional apprehension regarding theoretical risk of iatrogenic sensorineural hearing loss making the ENT surgeon reluctant to perform this readily acceptable minor surgery in one sitting.

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“…These approaches show promise in other low-income countries, but require the availability of precise equipment and trained audiologists, which remains a challenge in many low-income schools and school districts. Similarly, studies of hearing impairment prevalence found that Nigeria (Fasunla, Samdi, & Nwaorgu, 2013), Kenya (Hatcher et al, 1995), and India (Singh & Kumar, 2010) all relied on clinic, hospital, or health center personnel to conduct the screenings.…”

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School and Classroom Disabilities Inclusion Guide for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Bulat¹,

Hayes²,

Macon³

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A survey of ear, nose and throat disorders in rural India

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Pattern of ear nose and throat diaseses in a tertiary hospital of Dhaka city

Pattern of ear nose and throat diaseses in a tertiary hospital of Dhaka city

Outcome of Single-Sitting Bilateral Type 1 Tympanoplasty in Indian Patients

School and Classroom Disabilities Inclusion Guide for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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