삼출성중이염에서 비강내 점액섬모수송 기능에 관한 연구

The etiology of otitis media with effusion is Eustachian-tube dysfunction, mucosal changes caused by infection, immunological abnormality, clinical causative diseases, the use of antibiotics and irradiation. The clinical causative nasal diseases, for example, nasal allergy and chronic sinusitis may cause delayed nasal mucociliary clearance, which often may develop Eustachian-tube dysfunction.

To find out the relationship between nasal mucociliary clearance and development of otitis media with effusion, we studied nasal mucociliary clearance time of otitis media group(34 cases) and normal control group(80 cases) by the saccharin method. Nasal mucociliary clearance time of otitis media with effusion group was more significantly increased than that of normal control(p<0.0l).