The evaluation of auditory processing skills and late latencies in children with ventilation tube history.

Objective: (s): This study aims to evaluate the changes in temporal auditory processing skills in children who underwent bilateral ventilation tube insertion (VTI) due to Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) and the effect of these changes on speech comprehension in noisy environments.

Methods: This is a case-control study. In total, 60 children were included in the study in two groups.

Clinical Interpretation of Positional Nystagmus Provoked by both Dix-Hallpike and Supine Head-Roll Tests.

Background: Both the Dix-Hallpike test and the supine head-roll test can provoke positional nystagmus in a group of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo patients, including but not limited to those with multiple canal involvement. This study aimed to determine the incidence and interpret the clinical significance of positional nystagmus provoked by both the Dix-Hallpike and the supine head-roll tests.

Methods: The results of video-nystagmography sessions recorded in the computer database that included both the Dix-Hallpike and the supine head-roll tests were examined.

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Facial Nerve and Lateral Semicircular Canal in the Posterior Tympanotomy Approach.

Background: To clinically and radiologically evaluate the relationship between the facial nerve and the lateral semicircular canal during posterior tympanotomy.

Methods: Patients who received cochlear implants between 2010 and 2020 were included in the study. The relationship between the facial nerve and the lateral semicircular canal was classified into 3 types by evaluating the axial section computed tomography images.

Cochlear Implant Failure in the Pediatric Population.

Background And Objectives: In cochlear implant (CI) surgery, the results and causes of revision and reimplantation may guide surgeons in establishing surgical protocols for revision surgery with safe audiological outcomes. The aim of this study was to review our experience in terms of etiology, surgical strategy, and hearing outcomes in pediatric patients who underwent CI removal and reimplantation.

Subjects And Purpose: All patients received implants of the same brand.

Middle-Ear Resonance Frequency and Eustachian Tube Function in Players of Wind Instruments.

Introduction: The effect of the continuous forced expiration action of players of wind instruments to produce sound, on the eustachian tube functions and the middle-ear resonance frequency (RF), has not been investigated in the literature to date. The aim of this study is to evaluate eustachian tube functions and the middle-ear RF of players of wind instruments.

Methods: In this prospective case-control clinical study, a study group of 28 players of wind instruments in the orchestra (28 participants, 56 ears) and a control group of 34 volunteers (34 participants, 68 ears) were included.

Upright positioning-related reverse nystagmus in posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and its effect on prognosis.

Background: Positional nystagmus elicited by the Dix-Hallpike maneuver often reverses its direction as the patient is re-seated from the provoking head hanging position. The incidence of reverse nystagmus and its association with prognosis in posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (pcBPPV) is not clear.

Objective: To determine the incidence of upright positioning-related reverse nystagmus and its association with the success of canalith repositioning (Epley) maneuver (CRM) treatment in pcBPPV.

Transient Velopharyngeal Insufficiency After Calcified Stylohyoid Ligament Resection.

Elongation of the stylohyoid process or calcification of the stylohyoid ligament is known as the Eagle syndrome. Mostly, it is seen incidentally on imaging or with extreme suspicion and usually patients are asymptomatic.Surgery is the preferred method in symptomatic patients.

Effects of Glycerol Test on Resonance Frequency in Patients with Ménière's Disease.

Objective: To evaluate resonance frequency (RF) values via dehydration effects in the inner ear caused by the glycerol test, which is used as a diagnostic method for Ménière's disease (MD).

Methods: Twenty adult patients with unilateral MD were included in the study. Before, and then at 1, 2, and 3 h after administration of glycerol (1 g/kg), pure-tone hearing levels (125-8,000 kHz) and multifrequency tympanometry tests were performed.

Correlation between Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials and Disease Progression in Ménière's Disease.

Objective: To assess the relationship between ocular (oVEMPs) and cervical (cVEMPs) vestibular evoked myogenic potentials and audiometrically determined clinical stage in Ménière's disease (MD).

Methods: Thirty-four unilateral MD patients and 30 healthy volunteers were included in the study. Pure-tone hearing levels, oVEMPs, cVEMPs, and videonystagmography results were analyzed and compared between the groups.

Audiological and vestibular measurements in Behçet's disease.

Introduction: Behçet's disease (BD) is a vasculitis that involves all small vessels and influences the multiple systems of the human body. This study aimed to evaluate the audio-vestibular system involvement of patients with BD and healthy individuals.

Materials And Methods: This study was designed as a prospective case-control blinded study.

The protective effect of metformin against the noise-induced hearing loss.

Objective: To test the protective effect of metformin against noise-induced hearing loss.

Methods: 24 rats were included in the study. The first group was exposed to noise only, the second group took metformin, the third group was exposed to noise and took metformin, and the fourth group was neither exposed to noise nor took metformin as control group.

Otorhinolaryngologic Problems in Liver and Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to define the otorhinolaryngologic manifestations and clinical characteristics of patients who received kidney or liver transplants at a university hospital.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of patients who received a kidney or liver transplant between 2000 and 2013 and who were referred or applied to the ear, nose, and throat clinic were retrospectively reviewed. Otorhinolaryngologic complaints, signs, examination findings, and diagnoses of patients were noted.

The protective effect of adrenocorticotropic hormone treatment against noise-induced hearing loss.

Objective: NIHL is a common problem, and steroids are the most effective treatment option. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the protective effects of the synthetic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) analogues, which induce endogenous steroid secretion, against noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and to compare their effectiveness with that of steroid treatment.

Methods: Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley albino rats were divided into four subgroups as follows: group 1 (n=6) control, group 2 (n=6) saline, group 3 (n=6) dexamethasone (2mg/kg/day intramuscularly [IM]), group 4 (n=6) ACTH analogue (0,4mg/kg/day IM), respectively.

Audio-Vestibular Findings in Increased Intracranial Hypertension Syndrome.

Objective: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) can be manifested by audiological and vestibular complaints. The aim of the present study is to determine the audio-vestibular pathologies and their pathophysiologies in this syndrome by performing current audio-vestibular tests.

Materials And Methods: The study was performed prospectively on 40 individuals (20 IIH patients, 20 healthy volunteers).

[Cochlear implantation in far advanced otosclerosis: series of four cases].

In this article, we present four patients who underwent cochlear implantation due to far advanced otosclerosis. Preoperative evaluations, intraoperative findings, complications, and postoperative benefits were analyzed. Cochlear implantation is a treatment option providing excellent audiological results for rehabilitation of patients with far advanced otosclerosis.

Congenital cholesteatoma together with ossicular chain anomaly.

Cholesteatomas that occur under an intact tympanic membrane in the absence of prior surgical procedures or perforation are defined as congenital cholesteatomas. These entities are rarely seen, because they do not cause any major symptoms unless they touch the ossicular chain. Likewise, isolated congenital ossicular anomalies that occur independently of external ear anomalies and craniofacial dysplasia are also rarely seen.

Submandibular Gland Surgery: Our Clinical Experience.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the demographic findings and surgical results of patients who underwent submandibular gland excision at a tertiary care center.

Methods: The clinical characteristics and histopathological results of 45 patients who had undergone submandibular gland excision between 1997 and 2014 were evaluated in detail.

Results: Twenty-eight (62.

Auditory brainstem implant in postlingual postmeningitic patients.

Objectives/hypothesis: The aim of this study was to evaluate outcomes of postlingual postmeningitic patients who received an auditory brainstem implant (ABI).

Study Design: Retrospective analysis was performed on postlingual postmeningitic patients with bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss who underwent ABI between the years 2007 and 2014 METHODS: All patients were postlingually deaf due to cochlear ossification as a consequence of bacterial meningitis. The patients received a MED-EL or Neurelec ABI.

Facial palsy following embolization of a dural arteriovenous fistula.

Intracranial arteriovenous malformations are infrequent. Advances in endovascular treatment techniques have promoted the use of endovascular embolization in management of intracranial arteriovenous malformations. Transvenous or transarterial embolization procedures are effective options in the treatment of the arteriovenous fistulas.

[Our surgical treatment results in pediatric cholesteatoma].

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate surgical techniques and obtained outcomes in pediatric cholesteatoma.

Patients And Methods: A total of 62 patients (41 males, 21 females; mean age 13 years; range 3 to 17 years) diagnosed as pediatric cholesteatoma between January 1998 and December 2014 were enrolled into the study. Of the patients, canal wall down (CWD) mastoidectomy was performed in 31, canal wall up (CWU) mastoidectomy in 13, inside-out (ISO) mastoidectomy in eight, and tympanoplasty in 10.

Positron emission tomography evaluation of sinonasal inverted papilloma and related conditions: a prospective clinical study.

Objectives: This study aims to determine whether there is a difference between inverted papilloma (IP) and nasal polyp, and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with regard to fluorodeoxyglucose uptake.

Patients And Methods: Between September 2007 and May 2014, positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET/CT) images of 27 patients (20 males, 7 females; mean age 53.4 years; range 18 to 74 years), with unilateral polyposis diagnosed on examination and tomographic scans of paranasal sinus were obtained.

Ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in response to air conducted stimuli: clinical application in healthy adults.

Objectives: This study aims to determine the normal values for ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in response to air conducted stimuli in healthy adults.

Patients And Methods: Thirty-six healthy adult participants with no ear complaints were enrolled. Ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential tests were performed to all participants.

Glycerol affects vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials and pure-tone hearing in patients with Ménière's disease.

Conclusion: The pure-tone audiometry results following glycerol administration indicated a positive effect on cochlear endolymphatic hydrops. Glycerol cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) tests are a useful means of diagnosing saccular hydrops. There was no correlation between cVEMP and audiological results.

Hearing Status in Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients.

Objectives: Renal transplant provides a long-term survival. Hearing impairment is a major factor in subjective health status. Status of hearing and the cause of hearing impairment in the pediatric renal transplant group have not been evaluated.

Sudden hearing loss associated with tacrolimus after pediatric renal transplant.

Objectives: Hearing impairment is a frequent problem that can easily influence the quality of life for the individual. It may affect one's social and academic life. Knowledge regarding hearing impairment after renal transplant is sparse.