Facial paralysis associated with acute otitis media.
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.
Yonamine
Fernando Kaoru
FK
Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina.
Tuma
Juliane
J
Silva
Rogério Fernandes Nunes da
RF
Soares
Maria Claudia Mattos
MC
Testa
José Ricardo Gurgel
JR
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