Associations between skeletal discrepancies, breathing pattern, and upper airway obstruction in Class III malocclusions.

Objective: To verify the associations between sagittal and vertical skeletal discrepancies, changes in upper airways, and breathing pattern in children and adolescents with Angle Class III and Class III subdivision malocclusions.

Methods: Eighty-five children and adolescents with a mean age of 9.5 ± 1.

Variables with prognostic value in the onset of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Introduction: The establishment of an individualized prognostic evaluation in patients with a diagnosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) remains a difficult and imprecise task, due mostly to the variety of etiologies. Determining which variables have prognostic value in the initial assessment of the patient would be extremely useful in clinical practice.

Objective: To establish which variables identifiable at the onset of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss have prognostic value in the final hearing recovery.

Glucocorticoid influence on prognosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Introduction: Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ISSHL) is defined when a loss of at least 30 dB occurs in over 3 continuous frequencies, in up to 72 hours, of which etiology is not established, despite adequate investigation. Different types of treatment regimens have been proposed, but only glucocorticoids have shown some evidence of benefit in the literature.

Objective: To analyze whether the type of treatment or time of treatment with glucocorticoids have any influence on hearing recovery in ISSHL.

Comparison of hearing recovery criteria in sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Unlabelled: The countless methods available to analyze hearing recovery in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) cases hinder the comparison of the various treatments found in the literature.

Objective: This paper aims to compare the different criteria for hearing recovery in ISSHL found in the literature.

Materials And Methods: This is an observational clinical cohort study from a prospective protocol in patients with ISSHL, treated between 2000 and 2010.

Presentation, treatment, and clinical course of otogenic lateral sinus thrombosis.

Conclusions: Otogenic lateral sinus thrombosis (OLST) is almost always associated with other complications of chronic otitis media (COM) and did not present a distinct clinical expression. In our experience, OLST exhibits a benign course if the underlying disease is controlled. Mastoidectomy in combination with broad-spectrum antibiotics provided effective treatment.

The relationship between excursion of the diaphragm and curvatures of the spinal column in mouth breathing children.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between excursion of the diaphragm muscle and spinal curvatures in mouth breathing children.

Methods: A total of 52 children of both sexes, aged from 5 to 12 years, were studied. After otorhinolaryngological assessment, the children were divided into two groups: mouth breathers and nose breathers.