Introduction

Otitis media (OM) is a spectrum of infectious and inflammatory diseases that involve the middle ear. It includes acute otitis media (AOM), otitis media with effusion (OME) and chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM).

Areas covered

This manuscript discusses some of the emerging and unsolved problems regarding OM, and some of the newly developed prophylactic and therapeutic medical measures.

Expert opinion

In recent years, considerable progress in the knowledge of OM physiopathology has been made. However, although extremely common, diseases included under OM have not been adequately studied, and many areas of development, evolution and possible treatments of these pathologies are not defined. It is necessary that these deficiencies be quickly overcome if we want to reduce the total burden of a group of diseases that still have extremely high medical, social and economic relevance.

中文翻译：

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中耳炎的尚未解决的问题和新的医学方法。

介绍

中耳炎（OM）是涉及中耳的一系列传染性和炎性疾病。它包括急性中耳炎（AOM），积液性中耳炎（OME）和慢性化脓性中耳炎（CSOM）。

覆盖区域

该手稿讨论了有关OM的一些新出现和未解决的问题，以及一些新近开发的预防和治疗性医学措施。

专家意见

近年来，在OM生理病理学知识方面取得了长足的进步。然而，尽管极为普遍，但尚未对OM中包括的疾病进行充分的研究，并且尚未定义这些病理的许多发展，演变和可能的治疗方法。如果我们想减轻仍然在医学，社会和经济上具有高度相关性的一组疾病的总负担，则必须迅速克服这些缺陷。