Management of paediatric acute mastoiditis: systematic review.

Management of paediatric acute mastoiditis: systematic review.

J Laryngol Otol. 2017 Sep 07;:1-9

Authors: Loh R, Phua M, Shaw CL

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Acute mastoiditis remains the commonest intratemporal complication of otitis media in the paediatric population. There has been a lack of consensus regarding the diagnosis and management of acute mastoiditis, resulting in considerable disparity in conservative and surgical management.
OBJECTIVES: To review the current literature, proposing recommendations for the management of paediatric acute mastoiditis and appraising the treatment outcomes.
METHOD: A systematic review was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science and Cochrane Library databases.
RESULTS: Twenty-one studies were included, with a total of 564 patients. Cure rates of medical treatment, conservative surgery and mastoidectomy were 95.9 per cent, 96.3 per cent and 89.1 per cent, respectively.
CONCLUSION: Mastoidectomy may be the most definitive treatment available; however, reviewed data suggest that conservative treatment alone has high efficacy as first-line treatment in uncomplicated cases of acute mastoiditis, and conservative therapy may be an appropriate first-line management when treating acute mastoiditis.

PMID: 28879826 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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