The standard therapy for this is daily debridement of the external auditory canal, antipseudomonal ear drops, and intravenous antipseudomonal antibiotics. Usually after a week or so, the ear will remain open and does not require daily debridement. Thus the patient can go home on intravenous to antibiotic therapy. A gallium scan is obtained initially as a baseline. This scan shows where there is an abnormal collection of white cells.
Abscessed teeth can rupture through the medial mandibular cortex into the sublingual space.
This can cause the tongue to be pushed up and back. When a part of the heart wall itself is not adequately perfused during a myocardial infarction, it can start to dysfunction, thus causing congestive heart failure. Usually, however, this requires a fairly massive infarction.