Intratympanic methylprednisolone for sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Objective: Corticosteroids are commonly used for the treatment of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). In this study, the effectiveness of intratympanic (IT) corticosteroid injection was studied and compared with a control group on patients with SSHL who failed systemic corticosteroid treatment.

Materials And Methods: A total of 19 patients as a retreatment group (RG) and 18 patients as a control group (CG), all failed high-dose intravenous and oral corticosteroid treatments, were included in this study.

Objective voice changes in nondysphonic Parkinson's disease patients.

Objective: To obtain objective acoustic analysis results from Parkinson's disease patients who do not have voice symptoms and to compare these results with those from age- and sex-matched control subjects.

Design: Prospective.

Setting: Tertiary reference hospital.

Effects of unilateral vocal cord paralysis on objective voice measures obtained by Praat.

Unilateral vocal cord paralysis (VCP) affects the objective properties of voice by diminished neurologic control and degenerative changes in laryngeal tissue. The goal of this study was to compare the acoustic parameters of VCP patients with control volunteers using the software Praat. Acoustic analysis results of 18 unilateral VCP patients were compared with age and sex matched 72 normal adult volunteers.