Abstract
Eosinophilic otitis media is characterized by otorrhea of the glue state with infiltration of many eosinophils in otorrhea, most patients present with intractable otitis media accompanied by bronchial asthma and sinusitis. Between 2003 and 2010, we diagnosed 7 patients as having eosinophilic otitis media and studied their clinical course which is presented herein. We treated 1 case surgically (case 7) and treated 6 cases conservatively. The clinical course of the case which was treated surgically is good at present in respect of the aspect of the eardrum and hearing ability progress. Hearing ability got worse in 2 cases among the 6 cases treated conservatively and in 1 case we could not perform systemic administration of steroids because of the patient’s medical disease. Eosinophilic otitis media is considered as intractable otitis media, but our experience suggested that we can prevent advance of hearing loss as much as possible in those cases where we can grasp the condition of the disease exactly and treat patients appropriately according to their morbidity.
