Publications by authors named "S Kakehata"
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) to narrow-band chirps (NB-chirps) for estimating hearing levels in children.
Design: Thresholds from the NB-chirp ASSR were evaluated in 30 sedated children with normal hearing or hearing loss. The correlation between the NB-chirp ASSR and pure-tone audiometry (PTA) thresholds was analyzed, and the difference score (DS) between these thresholds was calculated.
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- This study aimed to identify factors predicting residual disease after surgically removing congenital cholesteatomas, comparing traditional microscopic ear surgery (MES) and transcanal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES).
- Researchers analyzed data from 23 patients who underwent surgical treatment and assessed variables like cholesteatoma type and surgical approach.
- The findings revealed that the presence of an open-type congenital cholesteatoma significantly increased the likelihood of residual disease post-surgery, with all cases of residual disease occurring within three years.
Downhill esophageal varices often develop because of venous hypertension caused by either superior vena cava obstruction or compression. We herein present a case of downhill esophageal varices caused by a giant goiter in a patient with postoperative Graves' disease. A 66-year-old man presented with an enlarged goiter.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: An idiopathic perilymphatic fistula (PLF) can be difficult to diagnose because patients present with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) and/or vestibular symptoms without any preceding events. In such cases, we currently test for cochlin-tomoprotein (CTP) to confirm the diagnosis of idiopathic PLF because CTP is only detected in the perilymph. In this study, we report the clinical course of five patients definitively diagnosed with idiopathic PLF who underwent PLF repair surgery using transcanal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric artery injury resulting from blunt abdominal trauma is rare, with only eight previous cases documented in the published literature. Our report describes a case involving an injury to the right gastric artery with concomitant injuries to the liver and spleen, for which arterial embolization targeting the right gastric artery was performed. The patient, a 66-year-old woman without any remarkable medical history, was involved in a motor vehicle accident.
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