2014
DOI: 10.9790/3013-040601043046
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Demographic profile of CSOM in a rural tertiary care hospital

Abstract: Results : CSOM commonly occurs in the age group from 11 to 30 years (40.50%). Female predominate male. Tubotympanic type (86.02%) is more common. Complications were associated with atticoantral type of CSOM. Conclusion : CSOM is a common public health problem that is often wrongly trivialized by people.Health awareness campaign, improved health education and easy accessibility to health care facilities can reduce the morbidity and mortality of this disease and therefore can reduce the incidence of this disease. Show more

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“…A significant relation was found in patients with low socioeconomic status and duration of CSOM. We referred these findings in Sudanese coming to our ENT and CT departments to the overcrowding, frequent upper respiratory tract infection, unavailable health care knowledge, as the patients are of primary or uneducated groups; this was similarly found and juto stified by Bijan [18] previously.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 57%
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“…A significant relation was found in patients with low socioeconomic status and duration of CSOM. We referred these findings in Sudanese coming to our ENT and CT departments to the overcrowding, frequent upper respiratory tract infection, unavailable health care knowledge, as the patients are of primary or uneducated groups; this was similarly found and juto stified by Bijan [18] previously.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 57%
“…Otorrhoea was found in 113(99.1%) of the cases, acting the most common symptom, followed by otalgia 69 (60.5%), and headache that was found in 53 (46.5%), table (3) .These findings are consistent with the study done in India where the complication as hearing loss was also been presented in their population, we would like to highlight that the CSOM which usually presents with otorrhoea, otalgia and other symptoms causing psychological disturbance and financial burden to the society as mentioned by Bijan. [18] The mean of maximum CT numbers varies in both sides of ears, this because there are many changes were happened in ears affected with CSOM ranged between 1066.00±153. 14 and 190±66.87 Hounsfield for right and left side respectively as presented in table (4) and significantly affected with the patients' age, table (8).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In the study by Basak et al, females were affected 1.8 times more commonly than males with CSOM. 6 Kiran et al, in their study stated that female patients (n=48) were affected more in their study when compared to male (n=32) patients. 7 Objective assessment of hearing improvement was done by calculating the closure of air-bone gap postoperatively in both groups.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 85%
“…It is comparable to other studies. In a study of 1717 patients by Basak et al, the incidence of tubotympanic disease was 86% [4].…”
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confidence: 97%