Alterations in early auditory evoked potentials in multiple sclerosis patients.

Unlabelled: Alterations in early auditory evoked potentials (EAEP) in individuals with demyelinating disease are suggestive of lesions in the brainstem.

Aim: this study aims to evaluate the prevalence of hearing disorders and altered EAEP in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

Materials And Method: sixteen female and nine male patients with a defined diagnosis of multiple sclerosis took part in this study.

Interpretation and use of caloric testing.

Unlabelled: Caloric testing is an otoneurologic evaluation of the status of the vestibular-ocular reflex; it allows an evaluation of each labyrinth separately. The main aspects on the use and interpretation of caloric testing are reviewed.

Method: A systematic review of papers published in the past one hundred years on caloric testing was undertaken.

Flexible nasolaryngoscopy accuracy in laryngomalacia diagnosis.

Unlabelled: Laryngomalacia is the most common cause of stridor in infancy. Diagnosis is established by associating the clinical manifestations with laryngoscopic findings in a dynamic form.

Aim: To analyze diagnostic accuracy of laryngomalacia through flexible nasolaryngoscopy performed by four different examiners.

[Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Public Health System of a city in Southeastern Brazil].

Objective: To assess the suitability of referral from primary to secondary care in pediatric Otolaryngology.

Methods: The study was performed in the city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, from March 2004 to May 2005. A total of 408 pre-school children referred from primary care to secondary care in the department of Otolaryngology presenting with otitis, tonsillitis, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, and tonsillar/adenoidal hypertrophy was assessed.