Tinnitus characteristics in patients with hyperacusis and vertigo (including Ménière's disease) vs. hyperacusis alone.

Introduction And Objectives: To compare clinical and psychoacoustic tinnitus characteristics in patients with the comorbidity of hyperacusis, hyperacusis and vertigo, and with Ménière's disease (MD).

Materials And Methods: Three hundred and twenty-nine tinnitus patients underwent audiological and otoneurological evaluation. Records of 94 individuals younger than 65 years, 40 women and 54 men (mean age 41.

Inferior nasal turbinate mucosa shrinkage prior to surgery under local anaesthesia.

Introduction And Objectives: Chronic rhinitis-related complaints may result from isolated hypertrophy of the inferior nasal turbinates. If the symptoms persist despite conservative management, turbinoplasty is indicated. However, the nasal mucosa lining the inferior turbinates seems decongested immediately before the surgery performed under local anaesthesia, compared to the examination when the patients were entered for surgery.

[Results of inferior nasal turbinate reduction in old and very old patients with chronic rhinitis].

Background: Symptoms of chronic rhinitis in old and very old populations may result from isolated hyperplasia of nasal inferior turbinates. Turbinoplasty is a possible method of treatment in these individuals. However, preoperative concerns are associated with their poor general condition: tendency to epistaxis, treatment with anticoagulants, hypertension, and less effective healing.

[Peripheral blood cell count and inflammation-based markers in chronic rhinosinusitis].

Objective: The aim of this study was to verify whether the following peripheral blood cell count and inflammation-based markers differ between various types of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS): neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), as well as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C‑reactive protein (CRP) levels.

Materials And Methods: In all, 386 patients had complete peripheral blood count, ESR, CRP and nasal cytology. The severity of CRS symptoms was assessed using three-stage Lund-Mackay computed tomography (CT) scores.