Effect of an Intranasal Corticosteroid on Quality of Life and Local Microbiome in Young Children With Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Intranasal corticosteroids (INCs) remain the first-line treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) in both adults and children, despite the lack of evidence regarding their efficacy in the pediatric population. Similarly, their effect on the sinonasal microbiome has not been well documented.

Objective: To assess the clinical, immunological, and microbiological effects of 12 weeks of an INC in young children with CRS.

Upper-airway dysbiosis related to frequent sweets consumption increases the risk of asthma in children with chronic rhinosinusitis.

Background: Innate immunity response to local dysbiosis seems to be one of the most important immunologic backgrounds of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and concomitant asthma. We aimed to assess clinical determinants of upper-airway dysbiosis and its effect on nasal inflammatory profile and asthma risk in young children with CRS.

Methods: We recruited one hundred and thirty-three children, aged 4-8 years with doctor-diagnosed CRS with or without asthma.

Cervico-ocular reflex upregulation in dizzy patients with asymmetric neck pathology.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the restriction in neck rotation and increased neck muscle tension could be causally related to vertigo and dizziness.

Material And Methods: Seventy-one patients reporting vertigo and/or imbalance were divided into 2 groups: 45 subjects with unilateral restriction (R+) and 26 without restriction (R-) of cervical rotation and muscle tension in the clinical flexion-rotation test. The normal caloric test was the inclusion criterion.

AUDITORY TEMPORAL PROCESSING TESTS - NORMATIVE DATA FOR POLISH-SPEAKING ADULTS.

Background: Several subjects exposed to neurotoxins in the workplace need to be assessed for central auditory deficit. Although central auditory processing tests are widely used in other countries, they have not been standardized for the Polish population. The aim of the study has been to evaluate the range of reference values for 3 temporal processing tests: the duration pattern test (DPT), the frequency pattern test (FPT) and the gaps in noise test (GIN).

Hearing threshold shift measured by otoacoustic emissions after shooting noise exposure in soldiers using hearing protectors.

Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the influence of short-term impulse noise to temporary threshold shift in soldiers using hearing protectors.

Study Design And Setting: The study included 80 subjects with correct tympanic membrane and thresholds measured by pure-tone audiometry less than 20 dB. There were two groups: 40 soldiers protected during shooting and 40 young males who didn't shoot.

Temporary hearing threshold shift measured by otoacoustic emissions in subjects exposed to short-term impulse noise.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the influence of short-term impulse noise on the size and dynamics of temporary threshold shift, which precedes permanent threshold shift, i.e. noise-induced hearing loss.

The association between positional vertebral and basilar artery flow lesion and prevalence of vertigo in patients with cervical spondylosis.

Objective: The aim of our investigations was to characterize the relationship between basilar artery (BA) flow velocity in patients with cervical spondylosis and age, grade of radiological changes, prevalence of vertigo, and decreased blood flow velocity through vertebral arteries (VA) after head rotation.

Study Design And Setting: A prospective, controlled study in academic neurotology was conducted. We examined 80 patients with radiological evidence of cervical spondylosis.

[Influence of positional blood flow disorders in the vertebral and basilar arteries on the prevalence of vertigo in patients with cervical spondylosis].

The aim of present study was to characterize the association between prevalence of vertigo and age, grade of radiological changes and positional vertebral (VA) and basilar artery (BA) flow lesion in patients with cervical spondylosis. We examined 80 patients with radiological evidence of cervical spondylosis. Forty patients complained positional vertigo.

[Kinesitherapy treatment for patients with cervical vertigo (preliminary report)].

The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of kinesitherapy in cervical vertigo treatment. Thirty two patients with cervical vertigo, aged 20 to 75, were examined. The patients performed kinesitherapy exercises three times a day for four weeks.

[Analysis of select diagnostic examination results and their connection with cervical vertigo diagnosis].

Cervical spine spondylotic changes are known to cause vertigo, but diagnostic criteria are not established. The aim of present study was to asses diagnostic value of classical radiologic, electronystagmographic (ENG) and transcranial doppler ultrasonographic (TCD) examinations in cervical vertigo diagnostic process. Forty patients with vertigo lasting more than 6 months with radiological evidence of cervical spondylosis participated in the study.