The Results of Cochlear Implantation in the Inner Ear Malformations.

Background: Cochlear implants are arguably the most successful neural prosthesis today. Cochlear implantation has several difficulties in patients with internal ear anomalies. This study was performed to analyze intraoperative, postoperative findings, and auditory performance of 55 patients who had inner ear malformations and were treated with cochlear implants at Otorhinolaryngology Department of Çukurova University Hospital.

Management of Complications in 1452 Pediatric and Adult Cochlear Implantations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the short- and long-term complications after cochlear implantation (CI) procedures and to discuss the management and prevention of these complications.

Methods: The study included a total of 1452 pediatric and adult cochlear implantation procedures performed in our clinic from March 2000 through September 2019. Of the 1452 implantations, 1201 were performed in children and 156 in adults.

The Role of Mobile Phone Camera Recordings in the Diagnosis of Meniere's Disease and Pathophysiological Implications.

Objectives: This study aimed to understand if videos of the patients' nystagmus recorded by themselves during the attacks can help in the diagnosis of Meniere's disease (MD).

Materials And Methods: Sixty patients (age range 32-78 years) who had vestibular attacks and hearing complaints admitted to Çukurova University Hospital Otolaryngology Department and a private office between September 2013 and January 2017 were included in this randomized clinical trial study. Two groups with 30 patients each were formed.

Cochlear Implantation Outcomes in Children with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: A Retrospective Study and A Review of the Literature.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to analyze the outcomes of cochlear implantation (CI) in patients with agenesis of the corpus callosum (CCA). A literature review and a retrospective analysis of our cochlear implant database were performed.

Materials And Methods: To the best of our knowledge, in the English literature, there was only one case reported with CCA who had undergone CI surgery.

The Utility of Endoscope-Assisted Rigid Bronchoscopy in Pediatric Airway Foreign Body Removals.

Introduction: Aspiration of foreign bodies is an emergency condition in children and may result in death, especially in children under 3 years of age. Therefore, diagnosis and treatment must be made rapidly.

Objective: This study sought to summarize our experience with endoscope-assisted rigid bronchoscopy (RB) in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric tracheobronchial foreign body emergencies to reduce complications and mortality.

Intratympanic Methylprednisolone versus Dexamethasone for the Primary Treatment of Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to compare the therapeutic effectiveness of intratympanic (IT) methylprednisolone and dexamethasone in the initial treatment of patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL).

Materials And Methods: A total of 46 patients with ISSHL who had been treated with IT methylprednisolone or dexamethasone were included in the present study. Dexamethasone (4 mg/mL) and methylprednisolone (20 mg/mL) were given transtympanically to 22 and 24 patients, respectively, one dosage per day for 5 consecutive days.

The Effectiveness of Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections in the Management of Sialorrhea.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of Botulinum toxin type A by injecting in the submandibular and parotid glands on the frequency and severity of sialorrhea.

Methods: Pediatric patients who were referred to our department with sialorrhea were evaluated using their parents' frequency and severity scores of sialorrhea with visual analog scales before and after 3 months of botulinum toxin type A injections. Bilateral submandibular and parotid glands were injected with Botulinum toxin type A.

How does cochlear implantation affect five vestibular end-organ functions and dizziness?

Objective: To evaluate all five vestibular end-organ functions (lateral, anterior, posterior semicircular canal, utricule, and saccule) and to investigate the relationship between Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and vestibular functions prior to CI (cochlear implantation) and at postoperative day 3 and month 3.

Methods: A total of 42 patients (age 16-70years) with normal vestibular functions preoperatively and undergoing unilateral CI were included in this prospective descriptive study. Video head impulse test (vHIT) for three semicircular canal (SSC) functions, ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) for utricule function, cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) for saccule function and DHI for subjective vertigo symptoms were performed prior to CI and at postoperative day 3 and month 3.

Squamous Cell Carcinoma With Hyper-IgE Syndrome: A Case Report.

Background: Hyper-immunoglobulin E syndrome (HIES) is a rare primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by recurrent infections and elevated levels of serum immunoglobulin E, usually over 2000 IU/mL. Recurrent and chronic infection of the epidermis and squamous epithelium may also be a cause of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). SCC is rare with HIES.

Effects of Selective Seratonine Re-Uptake Inhibitors on Meniere's Disease.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on Meniere's disease (MD) on patients who have both MD and generalized anxiety disorder.

Materials And Methods: All patients were evaluated with neurotologic examination, videonystagmography, audiological tests, and inner ear magnetic resonance imaging. Characteristic history and the evaluation of the patients' vertigo attacks during the attacks were the primary criteria for the diagnosis of MD.

Cochlear Implantation in Patient with Cochlear Nerve Deficiency: A Case Report.

Diagnostic imaging methods are very important for patients with bilateral sensourinoural hearing loss. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to demonstrate the vestibulocochlear nerve and facial nerve in the internal acoustic canal. Also computed tomography can be helpful to determination of the deficiency of the cochlear nerve.

Alternative Techniques in Cochlear Implantation.

Objective: To review the alternative techniques in cochlear implantation and to compare the complications with different techniques.

Materials And Methods: Patients who had undergone cochlear implantation were reviewed. Those patients who were operated using alternative techniques were selected and evaluated for the cause of their hearing loss and for the type of alternative technique that was utilized.

Quality of Life in Pediatric Cochlear Implantations.

Objective: To evaluate the satisfaction of patients with a cochlear implant using a Parents' Perspective Questionnaire and analyze the significant parameters.

Materials And Methods: Patients who received a cochlear implant in Çukurova University between March 2002 and November 2012 were included in the study. Parents were asked to answer the Parents' Perspective Questionnaire.

Anthracosis: An unusual cause of vocal fold paralysis.

Anthracotic pigmentation in the bronchial mucosa is a bronchoscopic finding of pneumoconiosis, or evidence of heavy atmospheric soot. This pigmentation in the tracheobronchial mucosa is surrounded by calcified or noncalcified lymph nodes. Anthracosis is not a previously known cause of left vocal fold paralysis.

Choice of cochlear implant side in a paediatric population.

Objective: To compare the effect of right- or left-sided cochlear implantation on listening skills in a paediatric population.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on the listening skills performance data of children who were operated on and followed up at the Çukurova University Department of Otorhinolaryngology between 2007 and 2011. Sixty-three patients were included in the study.

Endovascular embolization of intermittent massive epistaxis secondary to posttraumatic carotid artery pseudoaneurysms.

Epistaxis is a very common medical problem in otolaryngology practice and can usually be controlled with conservative interventions. Rarely, uncontrolled and life threatening epistaxis occurs. We present the case of a 29-year-old male who developed intractable intermittent epistaxis due to post-traumatic pseudoaneurysms arising from the cavernous segment of the left internal carotid artery.

Surgical and medical management for complications in 475 consecutive pediatric cochlear implantations.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess complications occurring after cochlear implantation (CI) in children and to discuss revision surgeries and medical interventions occurring during follow-up.

Study Design: Retrospective study of 475 consecutive pediatric cochlear implantations at a tertiary referral center.

Methods: The patients (n = 475) who received cochlear implants in our institution between March 2000 and March 2012 were followed up (range, 5 months-12 years).

Factors contributing to limited or non-use in the cochlear implant systems in children: 11 years experience.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the incidence and etiologic factors of non-use and limited use of cochlear implants. The patients' age, gender, duration of implantation and additional disabilities were investigated.

Patients And Methods: Of the 413 (200 males, 213 females) pediatric patients (age under 16) implanted in our clinic between January 2000 and December 2011, 12 limited user/non-user cochlear implanted patients were selected who had a follow-up of at least 24 months.

Investigation of recurrence risk in laryngeal cancer following laser surgery.

Background: The general prognostic factors in larynx tumors are believed to be tumor stage, anatomical location, histological differentiation and the presence of neck metastasis. Effects of tumor invasion to sub-regions of larynx (anterior commissure, ventricle, subglottic space) and over-expression of p53, c-erb-B2 and Ki67 detected immunohistochemically on development of recurrence in patients were investigated in this study.

Methods: Twenty patients (Group 1) in whom recurrence had developed and 20 others (Group 2) without recurrence during follow-up were included in this study.

Connexin 26 and 30 mutations in paediatric patients with congenital, non-syndromic hearing loss treated with cochlear implantation in Mediterranean Turkey.

Objective: Mutations in the genes for connexin 26 (GJB2) and connexin 30 (GJB6) play an important role in autosomal recessive, non-syndromic hearing loss. This study aimed to detect the 35delG and 167delT mutations of the GJB2 gene and the del(GJB6-D13S1830) mutation of the GJB6 gene in paediatric patients diagnosed with congenital, non-syndromic hearing loss and treated with cochlear implantation in Mediterranean Turkey.

Materials And Method: We included 94 children diagnosed with congenital, non-syndromic hearing loss and treated with cochlear implantation.

Detection of recurrent and primary acquired cholesteatoma with echo-planar diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic value of echo-planar diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in pre-operative detection of suspected primary acquired, residual and/or recurrent cholesteatoma.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-eight chronic otitis media patients with suspected cholesteatoma were thus evaluated two weeks pre-operatively, and divided into group one (41 patients, no previous surgery, suspected primary acquired cholesteatoma) and group two (17 patients, previous surgery, scheduled 'second-look' or revision surgery for suspected residual or recurrent cholesteatoma). Patients' operative, histopathology and radiological findings were compared.

[Auditory performance analyses of cochlear implanted patients].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the auditory performance development of cochlear implanted patients. The effects of age at implantation, gender, implanted ear and model of the cochlear implant on the patients' auditory performance were investigated.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-eight patients (12 boys, 16 girls) with congenital prelingual hearing loss who underwent cochlear implant surgery at our clinic and a follow-up of at least 18 months were selected for the study.

Castleman-like reaction due to toxic substance ingestion.

Castleman disease (CD) is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder with a unique histopathology. Generally diagnosis is not difficult for an experienced pathologist. However, not usually, some histopathological entities or tissue reactions may mimic CD.

The antibiotic prescribing behaviourof physicians for acute tonsillopharyngitis in primary care.

Objectives: Acute tonsillopharyngitis is one of the most common reasons for antibiotic use although it is mostly viral. There seems to be a large variation between physicians in prescribing antibiotics. The aim of this study was to explore the antibiotic prescribing behaviour of physicians while treating cases with acute tonsillopharyngitis.