his study is designated to establish the normal
Moscopic appearance of the newborn tympanic
membrane, with possible variations that may suggest
Middle ear effusion (MEE), and to determine
prospesctively the prevalence and bacteriology of
MEE in neonates admitted to the NICU in comparison
to a control group of full-term neonates.
The present study was performed on two
groups of neonates. The first included 60 neonates
admitted to the NICU and the second group intuded
100 full-term newborn.
A higher incidence of MEE has been reported
among ICU neonates (30%) than among full-term
neoinats (12%). There were no statistical significant
for sex and age of neonates in relation to MEE
affection.
As regard the percentage of MEE in high risk
neonates we found that 33.3% of premature babies
showed MEE and 50 % of neonates with pneumonia
had MEE. If pneumonia was complicated
by septicaemia, MEE occurred in 66.7% of these
cases. In case of neonates with hyperbilirubinaemia,
we diagnosed MEE in 20% of these cases. In |
