Influencing Factors of Survival in Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Cancer.

This study examined the effects of various factors on survival in hypopharyngeal cancer, involving a total of 100 patients. Comorbidities, treatment modalities, survival times, and potential factors affecting survival were retrospectively analysed. The expression of p16 was also examined.

The Correlation between the Results of the Sniffin' Sticks Test, Demographic Data, and Questionnaire of Olfactory Disorders in a Hungarian Population after a SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Background: After a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, smell disorders frequently occur, significantly affecting patients' quality of life (QoL).

Methods: 110 patients with persistent olfactory disorder after coronavirus infection were enrolled. These patients underwent chemosensory testing using the Sniffin' Sticks test, and completed the Questionnaire of Olfactory Disorders (QOD).

Correlation Between Tinnitus Handicap and Depression and Anxiety Scores.

Objectives: This study aimed to analyse the correlation between depression, anxiety, and tinnitus handicap in patients with primary tinnitus.

Methods: A total of 102 patients (41 men, 61 women; mean age ± SD: 56.8 ± 11.

[Results of the detailed examinations in patients suffering from tinnitus].

Introduction: Tinnitus is a sound without an external sound stimulus, usually only perceived by the sufferer. Inner ear damage might be found in its background, although many other possible causes exist. Therefore, there is a need for a detailed examination in all cases.

Tinnitus characteristics and associated variables on Tinnitus Handicap Inventory among a Hungarian population.

Background: Tinnitus is a sound precepted without an external sound stimulus. Its background can be categorised into primary and secondary cases. The secondary cases include pathologies of the external, middle and inner ear.

[The effects of tinnitus on the patients' quality of life].

Introduction: Tinnitus can be considered a common complaint that may significantly affect the patients’ quality of life. Tinnitus may be examined based on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire. Method: The current study involved a total of 559 patients with primary tinnitus who have filled in the validated Hungarian version of the THI questionnaire.

Depression scores and quality of life of vertiginous patients, suffering from different vestibular disorders.

Purpose: To contrast the quality of life (QoL) impairment and depression scores of patients suffering from different vestibular disorders.

Methods: 301 patients were examined due to vertiginous complaints at the Neurotology Centre of the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of Semmelweis University. These patients completed the Hungarian version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised questionnaires.

A possible objective test to detect benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. The role of the caloric and video-head impulse tests in the diagnosis.

Background: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is characterized by vertigo lasting from seconds to minutes, induced by head movements.

Objectives: Our study aimed to investigate the clinical significance of the caloric vestibular and video head-impulse tests (vHIT) diagnosing the disorder.

Methods: 68 patients suffering from posterior canal BPPV (25 male, 43 females, mean age SD, 54.

The diagnosis of central vestibular disorders based on the complementary examination of the vestibulospinal reflex.

Objectives: Stance and gait unsteadiness along with vertigo contribute to a central vestibular disorder. For objective analysis ultrasound-computer-craniocorpography (US-COMP-CCG) can be used. Aim of the study was to characterize the unsteadiness in central vestibular disorders and discuss the possible diagnostic usage of US-COMP-CCG.

[The influence of dizziness on the quality of life in elderly].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A szédülés időskorban gyakori panasz, amely jelentősen befolyásolja az életminőséget. Háttere sok esetben multifaktoriális, egyes esetekben azonban jól meghatározott ok kimutatható.

[Assessment of the patients’ quality of life visiting the emergency department with dizziness].

Unlabelled: Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A szédülés gyakori panasz, amellyel a betegek felkeresik a sürgősségi osztályt. Emellett fontos tünet, hiszen kihívást jelent mind a diagnosztika, mind a terápia szempontjából, és nagy hatással lehet a betegek életminőségére.

Effectiveness of intratympanic dexamethasone for the treatment of vertigo attacks in patients with Ménière's disease compared with betahistine pharmacotherapy.

Objective: This study analyzed the possible effects of intratympanic steroid (ITS) therapy in the symptomatic treatment of vertigo attacks in patients with Ménière's disease.

Methods: Thirty-five patients treated with ITS (dexamethasone) plus betahistine (Group A) and 35 patients treated with betahistine alone (Group B) were enrolled in this investigation. Complaints were analyzed using medical records and vertigo diaries.

Comparative Study Between the Auditory and Vestibular Functions in Ménière's Disease.

Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between the loss of the cochleovestibular functions in Ménière's disease (MD).

Methods: Forty-three patients with definite MD underwent pure-tone audiometry (PTA) and caloric test. Canal paresis (CP%), dPTA (interaural difference), and average PTA results were contrasted.

[What happens to vertiginous population after emission from the Emergency Department?].

Background - Dizziness is one of the most frequent complaints when a patient is searching for medical care and resolution. This can be a problematic presentation in the emergency department, both from a diagnostic and a management standpoint. Purpose - The aim of our study is to clarify what happens to patients after leaving the emergency department.

Intratympanic gentamycine for Ménière's disease: is there a selective vestibulotoxic effect?

Purpose: The aim of our study is to investigate the effectiveness and safety of the treatment, based on vertigo diaries and pure tone audiograms.

Methods: The complete medical documentation of 105 definite patients suffering from Ménière's disease was analyzed. In the studied group, nine patients were treated with intratympanic gentamycine.

[Objective diagnostic possibility in the differentiation of idiopathic and secondary benign paroxysmal positional vertigo].

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common peripheral vestibular disorder. The most important symptom is vertigo, which is triggered by changes in head position and sometimes is accompanied by vegetative symptoms. Furthermore, etiology may be subcategorized into idiopathic and secondary (connected to other vestibular disorder, like Ménière's disease, vestibular neuritis, or vestibular migraine).

[Effect of the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles tenotomy on the quality of life of patients suffering from Ménière's disease].

Tenotomy of the tendon of the stapedius and tensor tympani (TT) muscles is a minimal-invasive surgical therapeutic procedure in Ménière's disease (MD). It has been assumed that the TT medializes the stapes into the oval window, resulting in changes in perilymphatic pressures of the inner ear. By cutting the tendons of both middle ear muscles, they affect the pressure dynamics by not augmenting this pressure even further.

[Typical characteristics of the symptoms of patients suffering from Ménière's disease and the multidisciplinary approach].

Ménière's disease (MD) is a disorder that affects the inner ear, characterized by vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss and vegetative symptoms. One of the main points of the management of the patients is the analysis of the vertigo diaries. To identify the typical characteristics of the symptoms and to highlight the importance of multidisciplinary approach.

[The role of Hungarian-rooted scholars in the development of Otoneurology].

Despite of the symptoms of vertigo have been known since thousands of years, it was evident by the research of the pioneer scientists of the 19th century (Flourens, Ménière, Breuer and others) that dizziness can also be attributed to inner ear disfunctions. The discovery of the vestibulo-ocular reflex was an important milestone (Endre Hőgyes, 1884). The vestibulo-ocular reflex stabilizes images on the retina by rotating the eyes at the same speed but in the opposite direction of head motion.