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Middle Ear Pressure Disregulation After Tympanostomy Tube Insertion

NCT00393900 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 84

Last updated 2017-10-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will determine if the investigators can use certain tests (eustachian tube function tests and gas exchange tests) to predict whether or not a child who had tubes surgically placed in their eardrum because of middle-ear disease will redevelop the disease again after the tubes quit working.

Conditions

  • Otitis Media With Effusion

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • William J Doyle, PhD · Department of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

  • Ellen Mandel, MD · University of Pittsburgh

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-10-31
Completion
2012-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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