[Effect of the functional state of the eustachian tube on the sanative process after ear surgery].

After radical operation 40 patients, who showed exacerbation of chronic purulent otitis media, were treated for problems of the Eustachian tube. All the patients showed granular salpingitis. The patients were subdivided into two groups with respect to the therapeutic method used: 1) in 18 patients, a punctured bougie-catheter was inserted into the Eustachian tube. The catheter was used to wash the tube with antiseptics (dioxydin, balyse-2, microcide) and to blow oxygen for 20 min; 2) in 22 patients, the permeability of the Eustachian tube was restored by bougieurage; then an antibiotic ointment was administered and, after purulent discharge stopped, solcoseryl ointment was placed. It was concluded that the incidence of exacerbations of chronic purulent otitis media after radical operation decreased, when the Eustachian tube underwent specific therapy.