Exploring the Effect of Silence on Auditory Network Regions in Young Female Adults who Experience Temporary Tinnitus on Exposure to Silence.

Objectives: To examine the differences in auditory evoked cortical responses that may underlie the tendency of some people to perceive tinnitus. The study hypothesis is that the mean ALR and P300 amplitudes in normal hearing adults who perceive temporary tinnitus after exposure to sustained silence will be larger than the mean ALR and P300 amplitudes in normal hearing adults who do not perceive temporary tinnitus after exposure to sustained silence.

Design: This was a prospective cross-sectional study.

Aprosodia Following Focal Brain Damage: What's Right and What's Left?

Purpose: Hemispheric specialization for the comprehension and expression of linguistic and emotional prosody is typically attributed to the right hemisphere. This study used techniques adapted from meta-analysis to critically examine the strength of existing evidence for hemispheric lateralization of prosody following brain damage.

Method: Twenty-one databases were searched for articles published from 1970 to 2020 addressing differences in prosody performance between groups defined by right hemisphere damage and left hemisphere damage.

The Role of Eye Color in the Emergence of Tinnitus in Silence.

 Previous research suggests that African Americans are less likely than Caucasians to perceive tinnitus in sustained silence.  To evaluate the association between non-cutaneous melanin as indicated by eye color and the emergence of temporary tinnitus during a brief period of silence.  A cross-section of adults grouped according to their eye color were exposed to silence.

Tinnitus and Its Effect on the Quality of Life of Sufferers: A Nigerian Cohort Study.

Objectives To evaluate the quality of life of patients with ongoing tinnitus. Study Design This was a cross-sectional study of patients with ongoing tinnitus. Setting The study was carried out in a tertiary hospital in southeastern Nigeria.

The impact of adenotonsillectomy on pulmonary arterial pressure in West African children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy.

Objectives: To assess the improvement or otherwise, in the mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) among children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy (ATH) after adenotonsillectomy (AT), and to examine the impact of timing of surgery as well as the patients' characteristics on the mPAP changes.

Methods: We included 39 children with ATH in this study. The adenoidal enlargement was evaluated radiologically with adenoid nasopharyngeal ratio (ANR) parameter from lateral neck radiograph, whereas the clinical assessment of adeno-tonsillar obstruction was conducted with the 'symptom score'.

Assessment of common otolaryngological diseases among children in rural primary schools in south eastern Nigeria.

Objectives: Despite a global improvement in health care delivery, rural areas in developing countries still have poor access to specialist care. This study aims to assess the occurrences of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) disorders among rural primary school children in south-eastern Nigeria.

Methods: Two rural primary schools were selected randomly from one of the rural regions of South Eastern State of Nigeria.

The changing epidemiological and complications profile of chronic suppurative otitis media in a developing country after two decades.

To evaluate the shift in epidemiological and complication profiles of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) over two decades in a resource-limited economy. A retrospective analysis of the prevalence of CSOM and its complications in tertiary health institution a over a period of 2 years were compared between 203 cases seen in 2009 and December 2010 (present era); and 343 cases seen in 1990 and 1991 (previous era). Data were collected on the demographic characteristics of the patients, age of onset of otorrhoea, the disease type, laterality and complications of CSOM.