A 19-Year Record of Training Haitian Residents in Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery.

Objectives: Since 1996, 1 to 4 annual training missions have been carried out to train Haitian otorhinolaryngology (ENT) and cervicofacial surgery residents by the association Liens Otorhinolaryngology Ayti (LOA). Until 1996, ENT was practiced and taught by ophthalmologists. The aim of this article is to describe the contributions and limitations of LOA in training of Haitian resident physicians and the creation of the ENT specialty in Haiti.

Clinical evaluation of cochlear implant sound coding taking into account conjectural masking functions, MP3000™.

Efficacy of the SPEAK and ACE coding strategies was compared with that of a new strategy, MP3000™, by 37 European implant centers including 221 subjects. The SPEAK and ACE strategies are based on selection of 8-10 spectral components with the highest levels, while MP3000 is based on the selection of only 4-6 components, with the highest levels relative to an estimate of the spread of masking. The pulse rate per component was fixed.

Lateral semicircular canal plugging in severe Ménière's disease: a clinical prospective study about 28 patients.

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficiency of the plugging of the lateral semicircular canal to control vertigo in severe Ménière's disease (MD).

Study Design: Prospective follow-up study.

Setting: University hospital.

Allergic fungal sinusitis associated with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis: an uncommon sinobronchial allergic mycosis.

Background: The identification of allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is still controversial and much more recent than that of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Their association has been reported very rarely in the literature.

Methods: The aim of this study was to present a review of 6 cases of AFS associated with ABPA from a series of 12 cases of AFS and to compare AFS associated with ABPA and isolated AFS.

Antibodies to myelin protein zero (P0) protein as markers of auto-immune inner ear diseases.

Background/aims: The inner ear can be the target of autoimmune disorders. Recognition of autoimmune inner ear disease is important, as it is one of the very few forms of sensorineural hearing loss (HL) that can be successfully treated by medical therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the detection of antibodies to myelin protein P0 (MPZ) could be a diagnostic test for inner ear disease of autoimmune cause.

Sinonasal sarcoidosis: review and report of fifteen cases.

Objectives: Sinonasal sarcoidosis remains a poorly understood and uncommon chronic granulomatous disease of unclear origin. We have attempted to characterize the main clinical and radiologic criteria for diagnosis and to discuss the treatment.

Methods: A retrospective study of 15 cases of chronic, symptomatic, and biopsy-proven sinonasal sarcoidosis and a review of the literature are realized.

Indications and results of cauterization by endoscopic approach of the sphenopalatine artery in severe posterior epistaxis.

Objectives: The authors present a retrospective study concerning cauterization by endoscopic approach of the sphenopalatine artery in the treatment of severe posterior epistaxis. The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of these therapeutics, their complications, to determine their indications and their contributions to the therapeutic arsenal of the treatment of severe epistaxis.

Patients And Method: This study concerns 10 patients, which have been operated in the department of ORL head and neck surgery of Strasbourg and treated over a 23-month period (from January 2001 to November 2002), for clinically labelled posterior origin epistaxis.

Physical activity after retirement enhances vestibulo-ocular reflex in elderly humans.

Vestibular information decreases in sensitivity with ageing, and its role becomes less important in the regulation of postural control. In addition, the practice of physical activity (PA) helps to improve vestibular sensitivity. This study aimed to evaluate PA-related benefit on vestibular function in 36 subjects split into four groups according to the period of practice.