Eosinophilic otitis media diagnosis using flow cytometric immunophenotyping
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: (1) To assess the ability of flow cytometric immunophenotyping to detect and quantitate eosinophils in patients with eosinophilic otitis media (EOM). (2) to evaluate the association of EOM to bronchial asthma. METHODS: Twenty-one patients with chronic otorrhea or middle ear effusion (MEE) were included in this prospective cohort study. Group I composed of 10 patients (14 ears) and associated to bronchial asthma. Group II included 11 patients (11 ears) without bronchial asthma. Samples of MEE were sent for flow cytometric analysis at initial presentation. Patients with positive eosinophils on flow cytometric immunophenotyping were analyzed after one-month course of dexamethasone eardrops. RESULTS: EOM was diagnosed in all patients of group I and in three patients of group II. The mean eosinophils percentage was 43.5% and 14.2% for group I and group II, respectively (p = .006). Those patients showed a significant response to dexamethasone eardrops, both on clinical examination and on flow cytometric analysis with a decrease in eosinophil levels post-treatment. However, this improvement was temporary and symptoms recurred after treatment cessation. Bronchial asthma was not associated to all patients with EOM. CONCLUSION: Diagnosis of EOM remained mostly clinical; flow cytometry immunophenotyping of MEE may be helpful as an additional tool in diagnosis and monitoring the response to treatment, particularly in non-asthmatic patients.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".