Tinnitus emerging in the context of a COVID-19 infection seems not to differ in its characteristics from tinnitus unrelated to COVID-19.

Background And Aim: COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, for which the first cases were reported in China, by December 2019. The spectrum of clinical presentations is wide, ranging from asymptomatic cases to a severe acute respiratory syndrome, sometimes with multiple systems involvement. Viral infections, including those related to respiratory virus, may cause hearing loss and, by extent, considering its pathophysiology, tinnitus.

Tinnitus features according to caffeine consumption.

Introduction: Consumption of high amounts of caffeine has been historically associated with tinnitus worsening. However, recent studies demonstrated that this seems not to be true, and caffeine may even improve tinnitus distress.

Aim: To analyze tinnitus features according to caffeine consumption levels.

Event related potentials (ERPs) to assess the tinnitus complaint during drug treatment.

Introduction: Previous studies have shown that the attention given to tinnitus can be a determinant of tinnitus severity. Some of these studies have shown changes in the amplitude and/or latency parameters of the event-related auditory potentials (ERPs). One of the tools previously employed to investigate an individual's attention is the Event Related Potential (ERP), which reflects the amount of attention from the patient to the provided auditory stimuli.

Tinnitus and event related potentials: a systematic review.

Introduction: Tinnitus is sound perception in the absence of a sound source. Changes in parameters of latency and amplitude on the auditory event related potentials or long latency potentials waves have been cited in tinnitus patients when compared to a control group.

Objective: To perform an assessment of scientific evidence that verifies the possibility of alterations in latency or amplitude of the waves of event related potentials in individuals with tinnitus.

Tinnitus and sound intolerance: evidence and experience of a Brazilian group.

Introduction: Tinnitus and sound intolerance are frequent and subjective complaints that may have an impact on a patient's quality of life.

Objective: To present a review of the salient points including concepts, pathophysiology, diagnosis and approach of the patient with tinnitus and sensitivity to sounds.

Methods: Literature review with bibliographic survey in LILACS, SciELO, Pubmed and MEDLINE database.

Tinnitus Treatment with Oxytocin: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of an external stimulus. It is a frequent condition for which there is as yet no pharmacological treatment approved. Auditory and non-auditory pathways are involved in tinnitus' pathophysiology.

Positive Association between Tinnitus and Arterial Hypertension.

Introduction: Tinnitus is the perception of noise in the absence of an external source and is considered by most authors as a multifactorial symptom. A systematic review concerning the association of tinnitus and systemic arterial hypertension retrieved suggestions of a positive association, but the articles included failed to perform a detailed analysis on the theme.

Purpose: To analyze the presence of arterial hypertension in tinnitus and non-tinnitus patients, to analyze differences between tinnitus impact and psychoacoustic measurements in hypertensive and normotensive patients, and to evaluate the association between the presence of tinnitus and the diverse antihypertensive drugs employed.

[Effects of the reduction of caffeine consumption on tinnitus perception].

Introduction: For many years, excessive caffeine consumption has been touted as an aggravating factor for tinnitus. The pathophysiology behind this effect is probably related to the blockage of adenosine receptors by the action of caffeine on the central nervous system.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of reduction of coffee consumption on tinnitus sensation and to identify subgroups more prone to benefit from this therapeutic strategy.

Tinnitus and arterial hypertension: a systematic review.

Tinnitus is considered a multi-factorial symptom. Arterial hypertension has been cited as a tinnitus etiological factor. To assess the scientific evidence on the associations between arterial hypertension and tinnitus.

Incidence of tinnitus in mp3 player users.

Unlabelled: Exposure to loud noise is one of the main causes of tinnitus.

Aim: To analyze the incidence of tinnitus in mp3 player users and non-users.

Material And Method: One hundred subjects aged from 15 to 30 years were enrolled, 54 of them were regular mp3 player users and 46 were not.

Correlation analysis of hearing thresholds, validated questionnaires and psychoacoustic measurements in tinnitus patients.

Unlabelled: One of the most criticized points in tinnitus clinical studies arise from the lack of consensus about measurement methods.

Aim: To evaluate the correlation between audiometric thresholds, pitch matching (PM), minimum masking level (MML), Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in tinnitus patients.

Study Design: Prospective, cross-sectional.

Correlation analysis of the visual-analogue scale and the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory in tinnitus patients.

Unlabelled: One of the most challenging topics in tinnitus clinical studies is the measuring method used. Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) are frequently used in tinnitus.

Aim: To verify the relationship between VAS and THI scores in tinnitus patients in a prospective study.

Complications of ent foreign bodies: a retrospective study.

Unlabelled: Foreign bodies are one of the most common ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) urgencies. Serious complications may occur, like tympanic perforations and bronchoaspiration, but they are uncommon.

Aim: To analyze a 1356 foreign body series and establish causes for the complications, looking at prevention.

Tinnitus treatment with memantine.

Objective: To evaluate efficacy and safety of memantine in the treatment of tinnitus.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, double-blind crossover study.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 60 patients with tinnitus were randomized into a double-blind, placebo-controlled, prospective crossover study.

Treatment of tinnitus with acamprosate.

Acamprosate, a drug used to treat alcohol dependence, was first reported as a potential treatment for tinnitus in 2005. The drug may improve tinnitus by a dual mechanism of action, acting both as a glutamate antagonist and as a GABA agonist. It is suggested that its action may be both on the ear and the nervous system.

A critical analysis of tinnitus measuring methods.

Unlabelled: One of the main factors that make tinnitus treatment so difficult is the subjectivity of measuring methods and therapeutic monitoring.

Database: Our aim, in this study, is to make a critical analysis of tinnitus measuring methods.

Conclusion: There is no consensus about tinnitus measuring methods, causing criticism in the methodology used in many papers.

Nasal foreign bodies: description of types and complications in 420 cases.

Unlabelled: Nasal cavities foreign bodies are common accidents in children, sometimes leading, in accordance with the literature, to complications such as epistaxis and bronchoaspiration. Diagnosis is often made with anterior rhinoscopy, but sometimes nasal fibroendoscopy and imaging may be useful.

Aim: To evaluate 420 cases of nasal foreign bodies removed in ENT Service of Souza Aguiar Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, as related to sex, age, type of foreign body and complications.

Tinnitus treatment with acamprosate: double-blind study.

Unlabelled: Nowadays, the treatment of tinnitus is still a great challenge for the otolaryngologists. Many facts remain unknown in its pathophysiology, leading to many different therapies, with irregular results. Acamprosate is a drug used in alcoholism treatment, due to its regulating effects in glutamatergic and GABA neurotransmission, and has never been used before in the treatment of tinnitus

Aim: To evaluate efficacy and safety of the acamprosate in the treatment of sensorineural tinnitus.