Assessment of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies level in convalescents plasma.

Despite extensive vaccination, the quantity of patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants continues to grow worldwide. Treating patients with a severe course of COVID-19 is a difficult challenge. One of the generally accepted and specific therapy methods is the use of plasma rich in anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.

[Can the SARS-CoV-2 virus damage human hearing and balance?].

In 2019, COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, evolved into a pandemic which is still going on. The basic clinical symptoms of the SARS-CoV-2 infection are: fever, dry cough, fatigue, muscle pain, respiratory problems, and the loss of smell or taste. Other symptoms, including those related to hearing and balance organs (hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness), are reported less frequently by patients.

[Patient in the otolaryngology office in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in the light of current recommendations, legal regulations and authors' own experience].

Generally, COVID-19 is an acute contagious disease caused by the SARS‑CoV-2 virus. The main route of human-to-human transmission is through contact with infectious secretions from the respiratory tract. Clinical manifestations vary from mild non-specific symptoms to life-threatening conditions.

Tinnitus in COVID-19 Pandemic.

Tinnitus is a symptom that can significantly affect the quality of life of every patient. In patients with tinnitus, one of the most important diagnostic element is medical history data. Patients classify the pitch and loudness of tinnitus graphically using the visual analog scale (VAS).

Epidemiology of dizziness in northern Poland - The first Polish neurootologic survey of the general population.

Introduction: Dizziness is a common complaint among patients seen by primary care physicians, neurologist and otolaryngologist. It presents difficult clinical and diagnostic problems.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and incidence of dizziness in the general population of the town and district Bytów, northern Poland, and to describe its clinical characteristics.

[Quality of life patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss].

Aim: The aim of this study was the assessment of the quality of life of patients suffering from SSNHL and treated in the Otolaryngology Ward of Regional Specialized Hospital in Słupsk between 2001 and 2010, who were interviewed at least one year after the end of treatment.

Material And Methods: A test examination was carried out in the period between 1 September 2011 and 31 March 2012 in the group of patients previously treated for SSNHL in the Otolaryngology Ward of Regional Specialized Hospital in Słupsk. Sixty-one patients responded to an invitation in writing.

[Malignant and non-malignant cartilaginous tumours of the larynx].

Introduction: Cartilaginous tumours of the larynx are rare. They usually involve cricoid cartilage, less frequently thyroid cartilage and other cartilages. The most significant clinical manifestations are hoarseness, dyspnea, dysphagia or a neck mass.

[Surgical treatment results of acquired external auditory canal atresia].

Unlabelled: Acquired post inflammatory external auditory canal atresia is a rear complication of external ear disease. It is presented as a connective tissue scar in bony part of external auditory canal. The aim of this study is clinical and epidemiological analysis and presentation of diagnostics and treatment results of patients with atresia treated in the Otolaryngology Department of Medical University of Gdansk.

[Epidural abscess as a complication of acute mastoiditis in a 7-year-old child].

Introduction: Epidural abscess is the commonest intracranial complication of acute mastoiditis. In some cases this entity may pose a diagnostic problem.

Materials And Methods: We report a case of acute mastoiditis followed by an epidural abscess in the middle cranial fossa and a bone fistula to subtemporal fossa.

[HIV infected child in otolaryngological practice].

The authors present material about 12 HIV infected children at the age between 0 and 18 years observed and treated in Department of Infectious Diseases Medical University of Gdansk in the period between 1991 till 2006. Retrospectively medical records of 4 of them currently undergoing observation and treatment have been analyzed taking into consideration: ways of HIV infection, applying the possible retroviral profilactic to a mother and a child, the damaging o of immunological condition in the period of observation and treatment as well as the possible head and neck changes. The authors come to conclusion that changes in oral cavity may be the first symptom of child HIV infection and in the oral candidiasis symptoms the possibility of HIV infection should be taken into account.

Risk factors of sensorineural hearing loss in patients with ischemic stroke.

Objectives: We investigated risk factors of sensorineural hearing loss (SHL) in patients with early stage of ischemic stroke (IS).

Methods: Our study consisted of 60 patients with IS who were treated at Department of Neurology, Medical University of Gdansk between 2006 and 2007. A multivariate stepwise linear regression was used to identify the risk factors that were related to SHL as measured by pure-tone average (0.

[Noninvasive fungal sinusitis (fungus ball)--diagnostic difficulties].

Noninvasive fungal sinusitis (fungus ball) is usually found in one sinus and the most frequently is caused by Aspergillus. Diagnostic criteria are based on histopathology, and fungal cultures are frequently negative. The clinical symptomatology mimics chronic rhinosinusitis and radiology, specially CT and MRI are helpful for making decision of surgery.

[Mucoceles of the paranasal sinuses].

Introduction: Paranasal sinus mucocoele is a benign pseudocystic lesion, which may originate from any sinus cavities when their natural ostia are blocked. Raising mucocoele in frontal, ethmoid or sphenoid sinus causes headache, disorders of eye mobility and deformities of forehead or orbit.

Aim Of This Study: was clinical analysis of treatment results taking into consideration the method of surgical treatment.