title: Facial paralysis associated with acute otitis media.
abstract: Acute otitis media with facial paralysis is not a very frequent association.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The goal of the present investigation was to asses the evolution of facial paralysis caused by acute otitis media. STUDY FORMAT: Clinical-retrospective.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied 40 patients with this association, from a total of 2758 cases of facial paralysis seen during this time in the department of facial nerve disorders. All the patients were clinically assessed and had epidemiological data, prognostics and evolution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The paralysis was of sudden onset in 95% of the cases. Recovery was of 85% for grade I (House-Brackman) and 15% for grade II (House-Brackman). Treatment was clinical, with antibiotics and steroids - yielding good results. In those patients with electrical bad prognosis, facial nerve decompression turned their evolution into a favorable one.
authors: Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina.
authors: Fernando Kaoru
authors: FK
authors: Yonamine
authors: Juliane
authors: J
authors: Tuma
authors: Rogério Fernandes Nunes da
authors: RF
authors: Silva
authors: Maria Claudia Mattos
authors: MC
authors: Soares
authors: José Ricardo Gurgel
authors: JR
authors: Testa
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult