Three Years of Vestibular Infant Screening in Infants With Sensorineural Hearing Loss.

Objectives: Although vestibular deficits are more prevalent in hearing-impaired children and can affect their development on many levels, a pediatric vestibular assessment is still uncommon in clinical practice. Since early detection may allow for timely intervention, this pioneer project has implemented a basic vestibular screening test for each six-month-old hearing-impaired infant in Flanders, Belgium. This study aims to report the vestibular screening results over a period of three years and to define the most important risk factors for abnormal vestibular screening results.

Total ossicular chain reconstruction using a titanium prosthesis: functional results.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a titanium total prosthesis (TORP) in ossicular chain reconstruction.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 113 cases of total ossicular chain reconstruction performed by a single surgeon between 2006 and 2018. Follow-up lasted until January 2020.

[Management of a global health crisis: first COVID-19 disease feedback from Overseas and French-speaking countries medical biologists].

The French society of clinical biology "Biochemical markers of COVID-19" has set up a working group with the primary aim of reviewing, analyzing and monitoring the evolution of biological prescriptions according to the patient's care path and to look for markers of progression and severity of the disease. This study covers all public and private sectors of medical biology located in metropolitan and overseas France and also extends to the French-speaking world. This article presents the testimonies and data obtained for the "Overseas and French-speaking countries" sub-working group made up of 45 volunteer correspondents, located in 20 regions of the world.

Children with posterior semicircular canal dehiscence: A case series.

Posterior semicircular canal dehiscence is a rare condition and can cause a variety of symptoms. We report three cases of children between 5 and 12 years of age with a PSCD. They all presented with different complaints as follows: Tullio phenomenon in the first case, conductive hearing loss in the second and, conductive hearing loss and pulsatile tinnitus in the third.