Abstract
Eleven adult patients (fourteen ears, four males, seven females) with acute otitis media associated with bone conduction threshold shift were investigated. The patients ranged in age from 27 to 66 years.
Four patients presented with anxiety about deterioration of otalgia or hearing loss. They had no recognition of relation ship between acute otitis media and hearing loss. All the patients were treated by iatravenous antibiotics, steroids and vitamins during hospitalization. Tympanotomy was performed in all the patients but one. They showed marked recovery of hearing (twelve ears showed complete recovery).
