The role of allergic and nonallergic rhinitis on success of type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty.

Objective: To investigate the role of allergic rhinitis (AR) and non-allergic rhinitis (NAR) on success of type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted on 60 patients who had type 1 cartilage tympanoplasty. The patients were divided into three groups as no-rhinitis (n = 28), NAR (n = 18) and AR (n = 14) groups, based on their symptoms, skin prick tests and/or serum specific IgE levels.

Evaluation of the effects of Covid-19 on cochleovestibular system with audiovestibular tests.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on audiovestibular system with Transiently Evoked Distortion Otoacoustic Emissions (TOAE), Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions (DPOAE), video head impulse test (vHIT) and caloric test.

Methods: Audiovestibular findings of 24 patients with moderate/severe COVID-19 and 24 healthy controls were compared using pure tone audiometry, tympanometry, TOAE, DPOAE, caloric test, and vHIT.

Results: On audiometry, the pure tone averages of the COVID-19 patients were higher than the controls ( = .

The effect of N-acetyl cysteine on biofilm layers in an experimental model of chronic otitis media.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on biofilm layers and on the course of disease in chronic otitis media.

Methods: Twenty-five rats that were induced with chronic otitis media (COM) were separated into three groups. In Group 1 (N = 18), 0.

The evaluation of the use of isotretinoin on vestibular system by using vHIT.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of isotretinoin (ISO) on peripheral vestibular system using vHIT.

Material And Method: This is a prospective study in which 30 patients administered ISO treatment with the diagnosis of acne vulgaris was evaluated. Following ear nose and throat, examination, audiological and vestibular evaluations were carried out.

Effects of a sequential cochlear implant of minimum comfort, impedance and electrically evoked compound action potential values of the initial cochlear implant.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of sequential second CI on the electrophysiological parameters of the initial CI.

Methods: Totally, 30 children who received sequential CIs between January and July 2018 were included in the study. All patients received the same brand of CI (Advanced Bionics, HIRES 90K Advantage 1J).

Is Allergic Rhinitis a Factor That Affects Success of Tympanoplasty?

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of allergic rhinitis on the success of the operation in chronic otitis surgery by using score for allergic rhinitis (SFAR).

Materials And Methods: In the present study; 121 patients, who underwent type 1 tympanoplasty were examined retrospectively. SFAR of all patients were recorded.

The effect of inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty technique on compliance.

Conclusion: IBCT technique should be preferred owing to its high graft survival rate and ABG gain. While no significant difference was found in middle ear pressures between ears that underwent IBCT and normal ears, compliance values were found to be decreased in patients undergoing IBCT. However, the lack of correlation between ABG gain and compliance values indicated that compliance increase had no effect on post-operative ABG results.

Conchal compression: is it a new syndrome?

Objectives/hypothesis: To describe the diagnostic criteria and treatments of concha compression syndrome (CCS).

Patients And Methods: Patients who reported at least 3 times rhinosinusitis attacks per year were considered in this study. All patients met the diagnosis criteria of rhinosinusitis based on clinical history, showed a nasal septal spur compressing concha on their endoscopic examination and had no findings of rhinosinusitis on their paranasal sinus CT scans but showed concha ondularis.

[Submucosal lingual schwannoma].

Schwannoma or neurilemmoma is a slow growing, solitary, and encapsulated benign tumor originating from Schwann cells of the peripheral nerves. Lingual schwannomas are rare. A 46-year-old male patient admitted with a complaint of swelling on the right half of the tongue for one year.

Glass ionomer application for vocal fold augmentation: Histopathological analysis on rabbit vocal fold.

Objectives/hypothesis: The aim of this study was to investigate the use of glass ionomer cement (GIC) as an injection material for vocal fold augmentation and to evaluate the biocompatibility of the material.

Study Design: Ten adult New Zealand rabbits were used.

Methods: Under general anesthesia, 0.

Comparison of simultaneous systemic steroid and hyperbaric oxygen treatment versus only steroid in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

A retrospective chart review to assess the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen treatment in sudden sensorineural hearing loss. 44 patients aged between 17-67 years diagnosed with idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss less than 30 days were admitted to our clinic Patients were treated with systemic steroid alone or systemic steroid plus hyperbaric oxygen therapy. In the comparison of two groups, there was no statistically significant difference of audiometric evaluation (P>0.

Mastoid antral ventilation tube; new treatment modality for reccurent otitis media with effusion and its long term results.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficiency of mastoid antral ventilation tube (MAVT) treatment in recurrent/chronic otitis media with effusion (OME).

Methods: 20 OME patients who were unsuccessfully treated with ventilation tube (VT) at least twice, who consented to MAVT and who were followed up at least three years were included in the study group. Control group comprised 10 patients who had the same characteristics and refused to undergo MAVT and underwent VT placement again.

Rigid or flexible laryngoscope: The preference of children.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of flexible and rigid endoscopes using a visual analog scale and reveal which one is better tolerated by children.

Material And Methods: The pediatric patients with voice disorders examined between July 2012 and October 2014 were included the study. Patients to whom endoscopic visualization had been applied several times were recalled for information about their preference of scope.

Tympanoplasty outcomes in elderly patients.

Objective: To investigate the outcomes of tympanoplasty in elderly (≥60 years) compared with young patients (18-59 years).

Materials And Methods: Patients who had been performed type I tympanoplasty between 2009 and 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. Preoperative and postoperative audiological results and the graft success of 42 older patients were compared with those of 72 younger ones.

Lingual Thyroid Excision with Transoral Robotic Surgery.

Ectopic thyroid gland may be detected at any place between foramen caecaum and normal thyroid localization due to inadequacy of the embryological migration of the thyroid gland. It has a prevalence varying between 1/10.000 and 1/100000 in the community.

Does glubran 2 improve the graft uptake in tympanoplasty? A retrospective study.

Tympanoplasty is a common procedure in otolaryngology practice and several factors have been described to increase graft uptake. Independent of the technique and graft material, the revascularization process of the graft is related to patient factors as well as contact of the tympanic membrane remnant's edges with the graft material. A number of different tissue glue materials and other packing methods have been used for graft stabilization.

Cartilage graft or fascia in tympanoplasty in patients with low middle ear risk index (anatomical and audological results).

The aim of this study was to compare anatomic and audiological results of cartilage graft with temporal fascia graft in type 1 tympanoplasty patients with low middle ear risk index (MERI). In this retrospective study, 63 patients that underwent type 1 tympanoplasty with chondroperichondrial island graft between July 2009 and November 2010 were compared with 45 patients in whom temporal muscle fascia was used. Patients in both groups had low MERI values varying between 1 and 3.