[Evaluation of osteomeatal complex in children with chronic sinusitis].

The aim of this publication was estimation of osteomeatal complex and its visualisation by means of CT in children having been treated conservatively and surgically because of sinusitis. There were analyzed 47 children age 4 to 18 years who had been treated in Dept. of Children Otolaryngology, Phoniatry and Audiology of Medical University in Lublin during 2001-2005.

TEOAE after treatment of otitis media with effusion.

Otoacoustic emission is a noninvasive method of testing inner ear function. OAE is susceptible to the influence of many different factors of which the principal ones are the changes taking place in the middle ear. In transiently evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE) we deal with double signal transmission through the middle ear.

Hearing loss in chronic alcoholics.

Alcohol has a local and general influence. A specially harmful effect is observed when it is abused--used frequently and in high concentrations. Chronic excessive drinking of alcohol results in sight deterioration, hearing loss and psychical disorders.

[Familial occurrence of hearing loss following streptomycin (SM) treatment].

References data indicate the probability of inheritance of predisposition to post-streptomycin hearing loss. Ototoxicity after SM is transmitted by women. It is considered as autosomal dominant inheritance, but the transmission to the next generation is not explained by the Mendelian inheritance rule.

[A nineteen year observation of a boy with branchio-oto-renal syndrome and chronic renal failure].

Branchio-oto-renal syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of the first and second embryonic branchial arches and the urinary tract. It is characterized in its full expression by branchial fistulas or cysts, preauricular pits, outer, middle and inner ear defects, hearing loss, lachrymal duct stenosis, facial paralysis and mental retardation. Renal anomalies may range from mild hypoplasia to complete absence.