Characterization of Hearing Loss in Adult Patients With Nondialysis Chronic Kidney Disease.

Objective: To confirm the association between chronic kidney disease and sensorineural hearing loss in non-dialysis non-diabetic patients and to establish the audiological profile of these patients indicating the possible location of the auditory damage.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Assessment of nasal obstruction with rhinomanometry and subjective scales and outcomes of surgical and medical treatment.

Introduction: Prospective study of patients with nasal obstruction (NO) in order to measure therapeutic success by anterior active rhinomanometry (AAR), Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) scale and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and to establish the correlation between these tests.

Methods: Patients with NO, on whom we performed an AAR, NOSE and VAS scales at baseline and after medical treatment (topical nasal steroid) or surgery (septoplasty, turbinoplasty or septoplasty and turbinoplasty). The nasal flow obtained by the AAR and the score of both subjective scales (NOSE and VAS) were compared and analyzed.

[Zuckerkandl's tubercle. Location, shape and dimensions].

Introduction And Objective: Although Zuckerkandl's tubercle is not known by many head and neck surgeons, it is a fundamental surgical anatomical detail, already described in the nineteenth century. Its detection is of great importance as the reference in the search for the recurrent nerve and superior parathyroid gland.

Material And Method: We designed a prospective study to analyse the posterolateral border of thyroid lobes, looking for this tubercle.

[The avian middle ear (Struthio camelus). Data for the physiology of sound transmission in systems with a single ossicle in the chain].

Introduction And Goals: The columella of birds, often cited in the literature, has yet to be adequately described. We aim to give an account of this transmission element, describing its anchoring systems and detailing the muscle associated to it.

Material And Method: We performed microscopic dissection and obtained images of ostrich specimens (Struthio camelus), chosen because it is the bird with the largest head.