Transcutaneous Osseo-integrated Auditory Devices: Analysis of Two Different Implants in Adults With Different Audiological Inclusion Criteria.

Objective: To determine and compare audiological and speech/language discrimination results in patients with osteo-integrated auditory devices, by comparing two different systems including different audiological indications in adult population.

Study Design: Descriptive and analytic, cross-sectional, cohort, and retrospective case review.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Epidemiology of vestibular disorders in the otoneurology unit.

Introduction And Objectives: The set of symptoms relating to disorders of the balance system are common in the general population. However, there are few studies quantifying the frequency of onset of the various vestibular disorders that present in specialist otoneurology units in the Spanish population. The aim of this study is to establish the epidemiology of vestibular disorders, their form of presentation, and the expected care burden in a specialist otoneurology clinic.

Health-Related Quality of Life in Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Descriptive Observational Study.

Cochlear implantation has a significant impact on patients' social life, performance of activities, and self-esteem. The objective of this retrospective study was to assess the health-related quality of life of cochlear implant users aged under and over 60 years by a self-report using the Glasgow Health Status Inventory and the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit. It was observed that quality of life values increased very rapidly straight after implantation regardless of age.

Cochlear Implant Evaluation: Prognosis Estimation by Data Mining System.

Objective: Prediction of speech recognition (SR) and quality of life (QoL) outcomes after cochlear implantation is one of the most important challenges for otologists. By sifting through very large amounts of data, data mining reveals trends, patterns, and relationships that might otherwise have remained undetected. There are identifiable pre-implantational factors that condition the cochlear implantation outcome.

Effects of Long-Term Speech-in-Noise Training in Air Traffic Controllers and High Frequency Suppression. A Control Group Study.

Objective: To evaluate 1) if air traffic controllers (ATC) perform better than non-air traffic controllers in an open-set speech-in-noise test because of their experience with radio communications, and 2) if high-frequency information (>8000 Hz) substantially improves speech-in-noise perception across populations.

Materials And Methods: The control group comprised 28 normal-hearing subjects, and the target group comprised 48 ATCs aged between 19 and 55 years who were native Spanish speakers. The hearing -in-noise abilities of the two groups were characterized under two signal conditions: 1) speech tokens and white noise sampled at 44.

Transeptal suturing - a cost-efficient alternative for nasal packing in septal surgery.

Introduction: Nasal packing is routinely used in septal surgery to prevent postoperative bleeding.

Objective: To demonstrate the possibility of transeptal suture as a safe and effective way to avoid nasal packing and to improve efficiency.

Methods: This is a prospective, descriptive, inferential cost study comprising 92 patients.

The relationship between neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and sensorineural hearing loss.

Introduction And Objective: Severe jaundice that requires exchange transfusion has become a relatively rare situation today. About 60% of full term neonates and 80% of premature ones will suffer from jaundice within the first week of life. Hyperbilirubinemia at birth is a risk factor associated with hearing loss that is usually further linked to other factors that might have an effect on hearing synergistically.

Results in cochlear implanted children before 5 years of age. a long term follow up.

Objective: To assess the hearing threshold and linguistic results of cochlear implanted children aged 10 months to 5 years, when they reached the age of 12. We studied the benefits of sequential bilateral implantation.

Method And Results: This is an observational, descriptive, transversal study comprising 57 cochlear implanted subjects.

Effects of high-frequency suppression for speech recognition in noise in Spanish normal-hearing subjects.

Hypothesis: Subjects with normal hearing (NH) experience lower performance in speech understanding in noise when frequency components of speech above 8 kHz are removed.

Background: Previous studies have explored speech perception in noise under various circumstances, but none have been specifically designed to explore the relevance of frequencies above 8 kHz and, more specifically, for the Spanish language.

Methods: Twenty-nine subjects with NH, aged 19 to 55 years, and native speakers of the Spanish language listened to two sets of three disyllabic word lists with background noise.

Bone metabolism and clinical study of 44 patients with bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws.

Unlabelled: Osteonecrosis of the jaws is a clinical entity described and linked to treatment with bisphosphonates in 2003. Its real incidence is unknown and it could increase due to the large number of patients treated with these drugs, and its cumulative effect on the bone. State of the art knowledge regarding its etiopathogeny, clinical course and suitable treatments is limited.

[Basilingual xanthoma].

Xanthomas are benign slow-growing dysmetabolism tumours consisting of histiocytes laden with lipid droplets of cholesteryl ester and, sometimes, triglycerides. Two forms of appearance have been identified: as dyslipidemic xanthomatosis with coexisting alteration of lipids, or as normolipidemic xanthomatosis without any lipid level alterations. Involvement of the upper area of aerodigestive tract by this entity is very rare and there are only a few cases in the literature.

[Classification of head and neck paragangliomas].

The terms glomus or chemodectoma arose with knowledge of the histological structure of these tumors; their paraganglionic cells, together with autonomic ganglion cells, form the paraganglia, and consequently the most appropriate term to describe these tumors is paraganglioma. Classification of these tumors varies according to the parameter chosen: patient age, secretory capacity or biochemical behavior, whether the tumor is isolated or syndromic, or benign or malignant, etc. Moreover, there are other classifications based on other features such as localization, extension, the recommended surgical approach, immunohistochemical characteristics of the tumor, whether the tumor is hereditary, etc.

[Glomus tumours of temporal bone origin. Study of 17 cases].

Objective: The objective of this paper is to make a retrospective analysis in patients with glomus tumours of temporal bone origin. We present the results according to the surgical approach applied in each case.

Patients And Method: This retrospective study presents the findings in 17 patients with diagnosis of glomus jugulare of the temporal bone, who were observed and treated in our department over a 5-year period (1999 to 2004).