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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
50 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2018-12-14
2020-10-01
Brief Summary
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Goal of this study will be to evaluate the Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET) in children as an additional treatment option and to assess long-term effects of BET. Beside the standard procedure, children (4 to 10 years of age), with equal pathology on both ears, will be assigned for BET on side.
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Detailed Description
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Otitis media with effusion (OME, "glue ear") is very common in children and characterized by fluid in the middle ear without signs or symptoms of acute ear infection. Fluid in the middle ear causes conducting hearing loss. OME has a large impact on health care costs and recurrent or persistent OME can effect the proper development of children. Frequently OME resolves itself, therefore guidelines strongly recommend watchful waiting for 3 months after which treatment options are tympanostomy tubes and/or adenoidectomy. However OME often reoccurs after these procedures. Furthermore there are various short and longterm side-effects of tympanostomy tubes.In Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET) a ballon catheter is used to dilate the cartilage part of the eustachian tube and is inserted through the nose to reach the opening of the tube, located in the nasopharynx. BET has recently been applied in children for therapy-resistant recurrent OME and inflammatory ear diseases with promising results. Risk and complications rates are very low.
Methods:
Goal of this study will be the evaluation of Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET) in children as a primary treatment of OME. Children between the ages of 4 and 10 years with OME and tympanometry type B on both ears, will prospectively be recruited and assigned for adenoidectomy and myringotomy. Parents then will be asked for participation in this trial and fully informed about purpose, technique and possible side effects. If consent is given, adenoidectomy, in case of large adenoids, and myringotomy will be performed on both sides. If necessary (very thick fluid) tympanostomy tubes are placed. One Eustachian tube of each patient is randomly assigned for BET.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
TRIPLE
Study Groups
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Ear without BET
ear without BET treatment works as control
No interventions assigned to this group
BET ear
ear with BET treatment works as intervention arm
Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET)
A balloon catheter is used to dilate the cartilage part of the eustachian tube and is inserted through the nose to reach the opening of the tube, located in the nasopharynx.
Interventions
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Balloon Eustachian Tuboplasty (BET)
A balloon catheter is used to dilate the cartilage part of the eustachian tube and is inserted through the nose to reach the opening of the tube, located in the nasopharynx.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
4 Years
10 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Medical University of Vienna
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Christoph Arnoldner
Assoc. Prof. PD M.D.
Locations
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Medical university of Vienna
Vienna, , Austria
Countries
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Central Contacts
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References
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Rosenfeld RM, Shin JJ, Schwartz SR, Coggins R, Gagnon L, Hackell JM, Hoelting D, Hunter LL, Kummer AW, Payne SC, Poe DS, Veling M, Vila PM, Walsh SA, Corrigan MD. Clinical Practice Guideline: Otitis Media with Effusion Executive Summary (Update). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 Feb;154(2):201-14. doi: 10.1177/0194599815624407.
Maier S, Tisch M, Maier H. [Balloon dilation of the Eustachian tube in pediatric chronic obstructive Eustachian tube dysfunction patients]. HNO. 2015 Oct;63(10):686-8, 690-4, 696-7. doi: 10.1007/s00106-015-0050-5. German.
Tisch M, Maier S, Hecht P, Maier H. [Bilateral Eustachian tube dilation in infants: an alternative treatment for persistent middle ear functional dysfunction]. HNO. 2013 Jun;61(6):492-3. doi: 10.1007/s00106-013-2713-4. German.
Popova D, Varbanova S, Popov TM. Comparison between myringotomy and tympanostomy tubes in combination with adenoidectomy in 3-7-year-old children with otitis media with effusion. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2010 Jul;74(7):777-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2010.03.054.
Jenckel F, Kappo N, Gliese A, Loewenthal M, Lorincz BB, Knecht R, Dalchow CV. Endonasal dilatation of the Eustachian tube (EET) in children: feasibility and the role of tubomanometry (Esteve) in outcomes measurement. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Dec;272(12):3677-83. doi: 10.1007/s00405-014-3443-2. Epub 2014 Dec 19.
Van Roeyen S, Van de Heyning P, Van Rompaey V. Delayed-Start Study Design for Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube: Alternative for a Randomized Controlled Trial. Front Surg. 2017 Feb 20;4:10. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2017.00010. eCollection 2017. No abstract available.
Poe D, Anand V, Dean M, Roberts WH, Stolovitzky JP, Hoffmann K, Nachlas NE, Light JP, Widick MH, Sugrue JP, Elliott CL, Rosenberg SI, Guillory P, Brown N, Syms CA 3rd, Hilton CW, McElveen JT Jr, Singh A, Weiss RL Jr, Arriaga MA, Leopold JP. Balloon dilation of the eustachian tube for dilatory dysfunction: A randomized controlled trial. Laryngoscope. 2018 May;128(5):1200-1206. doi: 10.1002/lary.26827. Epub 2017 Sep 20.
Other Identifiers
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EK Nr: 1795/2017
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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