Background: Acute otitis media (AOM) often occurs as a complication of upper respiratory tract infection (URI). Objective: To describe otoscopic findings during URI, the full clinical spectrum of ...

Purulent Complications of the Upper Respiratory Tract. Purulent otitis media, — that is ... not be discernible until the patient becomes an adult. Long-term longitudinal studies should be ...

The intervention did not lead to increased treatment failures or complications ... being given unnecessarily to children with acute otitis media,” said William Schaffner, MD, infectious disease ...