Reduced DTI-ALPS index in tinnitus patients: DTI-ALPS as a mediator of sleep on tinnitus.

Background: Sleep disturbance is a common comorbidity in tinnitus patients, which may be attributed to changes in brain structure and function. The aim of this study was to explore the potential role of the glymphatic system (GS), a recently discovered pathway for brain waste clearance, in tinnitus and the associated sleep disturbance.

Methods: The DTI-ALPS index of 22 tinnitus patients and 22 healthy controls (18-60 years old) were compared after controlling for age, sex, and handedness.

Etiology of newborn hearing impairment in Guangdong province: 10-year experience with screening, diagnosis, and follow-up.

Background: Hearing impairment is one of the most common birth defects in children. Universal newborn hearing screenings have been performed for 19 years in Guangdong province, China. A screening/diagnosis/intervention system has gradually been put in place.

Effect of balloon dilation eustachian tuboplasty combined with tympanic tube insertion in the treatment of chronic recurrent secretory otitis media.

Purpose: To investigate the long-term clinical effect of balloon dilation eustachian tuboplasty (BET) combined with tympanic tube insertion (TTI) in the treatment of chronic recurrent secretory otitis media (CRSOM).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of 30 cases of CRSOM treated with BET combined with TTI under general anesthesia between August 2014 and September 2016. Thirty cases of CRSOM treated with TTI in the same period were taken as the control group.

Skin reactions caused by bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) implantation.

Objective: To report a case of intractable skin reactions caused by bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) implantation to improve our understanding and treatment of BAHA implantation-caused skin reactions.

Methods: We reported a case of severe skin reactions caused by BAHA implantation. Related literature were also reviewed.

Damage of nasal mucociliary movement after intensity-modulated radiation therapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Background And Objective: Radiation usually results in paranasal sinusitis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which influences patients' quality of life. This study aimed to determine the relationships between dose distribution in the nasal cavity and nasal mucous injury in patients with NPC treated by intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), and to find the tolerable radiation dose for the nasal mucous.

Methods: Sixty-six patients with NPC treated by IMRT between October 2006 and November 2008 were enrolled.