Accuracy of the Bedside Examination in Patients With Suspected Acute Unilateral Peripheral Vestibulopathy.

Objective: Acute unilateral peripheral vestibulopathy (AUPVP) is a frequent form of peripheral vestibular vertigo characterized by unilateral vestibular organ dysfunction. Diagnostic challenges in anamnesis and bedside examination can lead to potential misdiagnoses. This study investigated the sensitivity of bedside examinations in diagnosing AUPVP.

Analysis of acute COVID-19 including chronic morbidity: protocol for the deep phenotyping National Pandemic Cohort Network in Germany (NAPKON-HAP).

Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic causes a high burden of acute and long-term morbidity and mortality worldwide despite global efforts in containment, prophylaxis, and therapy. With unprecedented speed, the global scientific community has generated pivotal insights into the pathogen and the host response evoked by the infection. However, deeper characterization of the pathophysiology and pathology remains a high priority to reduce morbidity and mortality of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Gender distribution and women leadership in German Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

Objective: To determine the distribution of female physicians throughout the rank from resident to leadership positions in German Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) departments.

Methods: This cross-sectional study collected data about the physician workforce in the German OHNS.The primary outcome was the proportion of female physicians.

[Demographic and epidemiological risk factors in patients with acute vestibular neuritis].

Objective: Vestibular neuritis (VN) is one of the most common peripheral vestibular balance disorder. Demographic and other risk factors associated with VN are insufficiently published. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify associated risk factors in patients with acute VN.

[Pyroban on New Year's Eve 2020 & 2021 - Analysis of firework-related injuries over the last 12 years].

There is an increase of firework-related injuries in Germany at the turn of the year. With regard to hearing, a distinction is made between blast (BT) and explosion trauma (ET). The study examines the prevalence and characteristics of firework-related injuries and the impact of the COVID-19-pandemic pyrotechnic ban on New Year's Eve 2020/21 and 2021/22 compared to the 10-year period prior to the pandemic.

Restoring speech intelligibility for hearing aid users with deep learning.

Almost half a billion people world-wide suffer from disabling hearing loss. While hearing aids can partially compensate for this, a large proportion of users struggle to understand speech in situations with background noise. Here, we present a deep learning-based algorithm that selectively suppresses noise while maintaining speech signals.

Non-intrusive deep learning-based computational speech metrics with high-accuracy across a wide range of acoustic scenes.

Speech with high sound quality and little noise is central to many of our communication tools, including calls, video conferencing and hearing aids. While human ratings provide the best measure of sound quality, they are costly and time-intensive to gather, thus computational metrics are typically used instead. Here we present a non-intrusive, deep learning-based metric that takes only a sound sample as an input and returns ratings in three categories: overall quality, noise, and sound quality.

[Dermatomyositis as a paraneoplastic syndrome of head-neck-cancer: Case series & literature review].

Introduction: Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare disease with the clinical manifestation of weakness and pain of proximal muscles as well as lilac-coloured skin lesions. One fifth of the cases is associated with the occurrence of a malignant tumor disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relevance of DM as a paraneoplastic syndrome in head and neck cancer taken into account the current literature.

[Vestibular neuritis - prevalence of inpatient cases in Germany].

Introduction: The vestibular neuropathy (VN) is a frequently diagnosed, acute peripheral vestibular form of vertigo. Typical symptoms are spinning vertigo, ipsilateral tendency to fall with standing and gait insecurity, and vegetative side effects. Epidemiological studies of VN in the general population are rare and the little existing literature varies in results.

Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis: case report and literature review of a rare endonasal infection.

Leishmaniasis is a protozoal infection transmitted by a sandfly vector. In Germany, leishmaniasis of the mucous membranes is a rare condition and usually due to extension of local skin disease into the mucosal tissue via direct extension, bloodstream or lymphatics. We report a case of endonasal leishmaniasis in a female German resident who presented in a university hospital with nasal obstruction.

Rare involvement of paranasal sinuses in sarcoidosis: case report and literature review.

Sarcoidosis is a non-caseating inflammatory chronic systemic disease of unknown etiology, which may affect one or more organs. Paranasal sinuses involvement occurs sporadic in sarcoidosis. We report a patient with a medical history of sarcoidosis involving her lungs, liver, and lymphatic system for four years who now presented with nasal and sinuses symptoms.

Effective but uncommon treatment of a spontaneous otogenic epidural pneumocephalus.

We describe an uncommon treatment for epidural pneumocephalus and an effective but uncommon treatment option. Complete and permanent relief was achieved in a young patient using a tympanostomy tube to eliminate excessive positive air pressure in the mastoid bone that was the cause of spontaneous pneumocephalus. The patient showed no recurrence and absence of clinical symptoms at outpatient follow-up.

[Management of thyroid carcinoma arising from thyroglossal duct cyst].

Thyroid carcinoma presenting within thyroglossal duct remnants is rarely reported. Mostly diagnosis is received postoperatively after resection of the cyst. No definite agreement exists regarding the therapeutical management after excision of the cyst especially concerning the necessity of total thyroidectomy and radioiodine therapy.

[Severe Bleeding from the Middle Ear Cavity after Myringotomy: Review Based on a Case Report].

Report of a rare case of severe bleeding from the middle ear cavity after myringotomy. On the basis of the case report, the procedure for such bleeding is discussed in the context of the literature. A 6-year-old boy received a revision myringotomy in an ambulant setting.

[The Relevance of Abducent Nerve Palsy in ENT].

Patients suffering from abducent nerve palsy are usually primary seen by a conservative medical Specialist. In most cases the ENT specialist is secondary involved for treatment. In the majority of cases abducent nerve palsy is a temporary symptom associated with neurologic or vascular diseases.

[Tonsillar actinomycosis as a rare cause of oral malodor. Diagnosis beyond a gastroenterologist's nose].

Background: Up to 30% of patients seen by dentists suffer from oral malodor. Part of them report serious distress and a sometimes paradoxical discrepancy in subjective and objective perception of symptoms. Less often, patients with oral malodor are primarily seen by general practitioners and specialists like gastroenterologists or ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors.

Intralesional Cidofovir application in recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis.

Recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis is a benign disease of the larynx often leading to organic and functional restrictions. The therapeutic treatment of choice in larynx-obstructing papillomatosis is at present surgical laser ablation. The effectiveness of adjuvant intralesional injection of the virustaticum Cidofovir has been investigated recently in a variety of therapeutic models.