Systematic functional assessment of nasal dyspnea: surgical outcomes and predictive ability.

Objective: Evaluate the ability of a systematic preoperative evaluation to determine the most appropriate procedures for patients undergoing functional septorhinoplasty and to accurately predict postoperative outcomes.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Tertiary care military hospital.

Microbiology of sinusitis: does allergy or endoscopic sinus surgery affect the microbiologic flora?

Purpose Of Review: To explore the role of bacteria in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis and how the presence of allergies or endoscopic sinus surgery may affect the bacterial flora.

Recent Findings: As our understanding of the etiologies of chronic rhinosinusitis continues to evolve, the role of bacteria as either a primary or an exacerbating factor remains controversial. It is clear that healthy paranasal sinuses are sterile, but in chronic rhinosinusitis bacteria are often present.

Epidemiology of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) was first described in the 1800s, but it was not until the 1980s when it was convincingly attributed to human papilloma virus (HPV). RRP is categorized into juvenile onset and adult onset depending on presentation before or after the age of 12 years, respectively. The prevalence of this disease is likely variable depending on the age of presentation, country and socioeconomic status of the population being studied, but is generally accepted to be between 1 and 4 per 100 000.

Audiologic and temporal bone imaging findings in patients with sensorineural hearing loss and GJB2 mutations.

Objectives/hypothesis: Our objectives were to determine genotype-phenotype correlations in patients with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) who undergo testing for GJB2 mutations and to examine the relationship of temporal bone anomalies seen on computed tomography (CT) and GJB2 mutations.

Study Design: We conducted a retrospective review of all children diagnosed with SNHL and who underwent GJB2 testing from 1997 to 2006.

Results: Of 840 patients, 146 (17.