Long Term Sequelae

	Long Term Sample Data Forms Long Term Data Dictionaries Camp Ears Data Dictionaries

This cohort includes 154 children with chronic OME recruited in 1987-1990 at the time of tympanostomy tube treatment.  Children were followed prospectively after enrollment with audiometry, otomicroscopy and multifrequency tympanometry until 2001.  Exams occurred every 3 months for the first 3 years, every 6 months through years 4 - 6, and annually thereafter.  Developmental testing (speech-language, academic, cognitive, attention, and central auditory tests) between the ages of 11 and 15 years was done at Camp Ears on 85 participants and 55 controls without an OM history.  Study participants and their families have been recruited for the Genetic Study. For more detail on variables collected, see Long Term Sample Data Forms, Long Term Data Dictionaries, Camp Ears Data Dictionaries.

Examples of Research:

Daly KA, Hunter LL, Lindgren BR, Margolis RH and Giebink GS. Chronic otitis media with effusion sequelae in children treated with tubes,  Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2003; 129:517-22.

Li Y, Hunter LL, Margolis RH, Levine SC, Lindgren B, Daly K, Giebink GS. Prospective study of tympanic membrane retraction, hearing loss, and multifrequency tympanometry.  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 121:514-522, 1999.

Hunter LL, Margolis RH, Rykken JR, Le CT, Daly KA, Giebink GS: Extended high frequency hearing loss associated with otitis media.  Ear and Hearing 17:1-11, 1996.