Role of Oral Steroid Alone Versus Oral Steroid Plus Intratympanic Steroid Injection in Bell's Palsy

Assiut University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Bell Palsy

Treatments: Drug: Corticosteroid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06213415

Steroid injection bell's palsy

Details and patient eligibility

About

intratympanic steroid injection bell's palsy

Full description

Role of oral steroid alone versus oral steroid plus intratympanic steroid injection in Bell's palsy

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mean Aged 18 years or more.

  • Acute unilateral facial palsy without skin lesions which developed within a 72-hour period and is present for 21 days or less.
  • Moderate to severe facial palsy [House-Brackmann grade IV or greater]

Exclusion criteria

• Another cause of facial nerve paralysis that is not idiopathic.

  • Otologic disease including otitis media, temporal bone fracture, a previous history of facial nerve palsy in either side, history of otologic surgery, and suspected Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
  • Systemic disease including history of tuberculosis, history of head and neck cancer, other neurological disorders, recent use of ototoxic medications, liver or renal dysfunction, and other illnesses that would contraindicate the use of high-dose steroid therapy.
  • Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Oral steroids

Active Comparator group

Description:

Oral steroids only

Treatment:

Drug: Corticosteroid

Oral steroids plus intratympanic injections

Active Comparator group

Description:

Oral steroids plus intratympanic injections

Treatment:

Drug: Corticosteroid