High frequency hearing 25 years after transmyringeal ventilation tube treatment.

Objectives: The main aim of the study was to compare hearing outcome between a healthy control group and patients treated with transmyringeal ventilation tubes, 25 years after primary surgery. Another aim was to analyse the relation between ventilation tube treatment in childhood and the occurrence of persistent middle ear pathology 25 years later.

Methods: In 1996, children treated with transmyringeal ventilation tubes were recruited for a prospective study on the outcome of ventilation tube treatment.

Hearing outcome after myringoplasty in Sweden: A nationwide registry-based cohort study.

Objectives: To present hearing results after successful primary myringoplasty surgeries registered in the Swedish Quality Registry for Myringoplasty and to evaluate the chance of hearing improvement and the risk of hearing loss.

Design: A retrospective nationwide cohort study based on prospectively collected registry data between 2002 and 2012.

Settings: Registry data from secondary and tertiary hospitals performing myringoplasty.

Tinnitus and taste disturbances reported after myringoplasty: Data from a national quality registry.

Objectives/hypothesis: Postoperative tinnitus and taste disturbances after myringoplasty are more common than previously reported.

Study Design: This study was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from the Swedish National Quality Registry for Myringoplasty.

Methods: The analysis was performed on extracted data from all counties in Sweden collected from database A from 2002 to 2012 and database B from 2013 to 2016.

Myringoplasty Outcomes From the Swedish National Quality Registry.

Objectives/hypothesis: Data from patients registered for myringoplasty during 2002 to 2012 in the Swedish National Quality Registry for Myringoplasty.

Study Design: Both conventional myringoplasty and fat-graft techniques were used aimed at healing the tympanic membrane in noninfected ears.

Methods: Analysis was performed on data in a national database collected from 32 ear, nose, and throat clinics.

Transmyringeal ventilation tube treatment in children: hearing outcome after 10 years.

Objective: This ten-year cohort study intended to determine any hearing impairment and eardrum sequelae comparing children treated with ventilation tubes (VT) with an age- and gender-matched control group.

Methods: A cohort of children who received ventilation tubes in 1996 was during 2006 compared with a control group, with no history of VT treatment, using standard audiometry, high frequency audiometry and otomicroscopy.

Results: In the spectrum of the standard audiometry, the differences between the groups were minimal.

Loud noise exposure and acoustic neuroma.

The results from studies of loud noise exposure and acoustic neuroma are conflicting. A population-based case-control study of 451 acoustic neuroma patients and 710 age-, sex-, and region-matched controls was conducted in Sweden between 2002 and 2007. Occupational exposure was based on historical measurements of occupational noise (321 job titles summarized by a job exposure matrix) and compared with self-reported occupational noise exposure.

Long-term mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk.

Background: There is concern about potential effects of radiofrequency fields generated by mobile phones on cancer risk. Most previous studies have found no association between mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma, although information about long-term use is limited.

Methods: We conducted a population-based, nation-wide, case-control study of acoustic neuroma in Sweden.

Transmyringeal ventilation tube treatment: a 10-year cohort study.

Objective: This ten-year cohort study was intended to determine the incidence and expected outcome of ventilation tube treatment at a clinic that serves a community with 300,000 inhabitants.

Methods: All children aged 0-10 years, who received their first ventilation tube during 1996, were followed over 10 years, at the department of Otorhinolaryngology, county hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden. All acute and planned visits were recorded and analyzed, but no extra visits were scheduled due to participation in the study.

Role of tobacco use in the etiology of acoustic neuroma.

Two previous studies suggest that cigarette smoking reduces acoustic neuroma risk; however, an association between use of snuff tobacco and acoustic neuroma has not been investigated previously. The authors conducted a case-control study in Sweden from 2002 to 2007, in which 451 cases and 710 population-based controls completed questionnaires. Cases and controls were matched on gender, region, and age within 5 years.

Facial palsy and Wegener's granulomatosis.

Facial palsy can occur as a result of various pathological processes, which are not always amenable to early diagnosis. This article is a case presentation of a patient with facial palsy, after an acute otitis media manifestation, as a first symptom of Wegener's granulomatosis. The clues leading to diagnosis consist of the practitioner's clinical suspicion of the disease, the use of the appropriate serological measurements (c-antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody), and the histological confirmation.