Tinnitus characteristics in patients with hyperacusis and vertigo (including Ménière's disease) vs. hyperacusis alone.

Introduction And Objectives: To compare clinical and psychoacoustic tinnitus characteristics in patients with the comorbidity of hyperacusis, hyperacusis and vertigo, and with Ménière's disease (MD).

Materials And Methods: Three hundred and twenty-nine tinnitus patients underwent audiological and otoneurological evaluation. Records of 94 individuals younger than 65 years, 40 women and 54 men (mean age 41.

Inferior nasal turbinate mucosa shrinkage prior to surgery under local anaesthesia.

Introduction And Objectives: Chronic rhinitis-related complaints may result from isolated hypertrophy of the inferior nasal turbinates. If the symptoms persist despite conservative management, turbinoplasty is indicated. However, the nasal mucosa lining the inferior turbinates seems decongested immediately before the surgery performed under local anaesthesia, compared to the examination when the patients were entered for surgery.

[Results of inferior nasal turbinate reduction in old and very old patients with chronic rhinitis].

Background: Symptoms of chronic rhinitis in old and very old populations may result from isolated hyperplasia of nasal inferior turbinates. Turbinoplasty is a possible method of treatment in these individuals. However, preoperative concerns are associated with their poor general condition: tendency to epistaxis, treatment with anticoagulants, hypertension, and less effective healing.

[Peripheral blood cell count and inflammation-based markers in chronic rhinosinusitis].

Objective: The aim of this study was to verify whether the following peripheral blood cell count and inflammation-based markers differ between various types of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS): neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), as well as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C‑reactive protein (CRP) levels.

Materials And Methods: In all, 386 patients had complete peripheral blood count, ESR, CRP and nasal cytology. The severity of CRS symptoms was assessed using three-stage Lund-Mackay computed tomography (CT) scores.

Double tinnitus in a single ear.

Objective: To search for distinctive clinical features of patients with double tinnitus in a single ear. Design retrospective: Study sample: Six hundred and fourteen tinnitus patients were interviewed using a detailed questionnaire. They underwent thorough audiological evaluation.

Paediatric otitis media with effusion is connected to deficits in music perception.

Purpose: This study tested the hypothesis that children with otitis media with effusion (OME) attending a primary school are at risk of impairment of their musical skills. OME is characterized as an inflammation with accumulation of secretion in the tympanic cavity, leading to conductive hearing loss.

Method: Perception of music in children is assessed using the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Music Abilities (MBEMA).

Comparison of characteristics observed in tinnitus patients with unilateral vs bilateral symptoms, with both normal hearing threshold and distortion-product otoacoustic emissions.

Conclusion: Tinnitus characteristics in normal-hearing patients differ between the groups with unilateral and bilateral complaints.

Objectives: The study was to determine the differences between tinnitus characteristics observed in patients with unilateral vs bilateral symptoms and normal hearing threshold, as well as normal results of distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs).

Method: The patients answered questions concerning tinnitus duration, laterality, character, accompanying symptoms, and circumstances of onset.

Adult tonsillectomy: postoperative pain depends on indications.

Introduction: Intense pain is one of the most important postoperative complaints after tonsillectomy. It is often described by patients as comparable to the pain that accompanies an acute tonsillitis. Although recurrent tonsillitis is the most frequent indication for surgery, many tonsillectomies are performed due to other indications and these patients may be unfamiliar with such pain.

Effectiveness of Polyvalent Bacterial Lysate and Autovaccines Against Upper Respiratory Tract Bacterial Colonization by Potential Pathogens: A Randomized Study.

Background: Polyvalent bacterial lysate (PBL) is an oral immunostimulating vaccine consisting of bacterial standardized lysates obtained by lysis of different strains of bacteria. Autovaccines are individually prepared based on the results of smears obtained from the patient. Both types of vaccine can be used to treat an ongoing chronic infection.

Adult tonsillectomy: anatomical differences affect postoperative transient hypernasality.

Objective: Our purpose was to determine how anatomical conditions of the throat influence the degree and duration of posttonsillectomy transient hypernasality.

Patients And Methods: A total of 82 tonsillectomies were performed. The participants were divided into groups: 1 – small tonsils, high soft palate position; 4 – large tonsils, low soft palate position, and 2 and 3 – intermediate tonsil dimensions and soft palate positions.

How do pediatric adenoidectomy and adenotonsillotomy influence maternal psychological status?

We conducted a study to determine the impact that pediatric adenoidectomy or adenotonsillotomy (adenoidectomy with a partial tonsillectomy) had on the short-term psychological status of the children's mothers. Mothers of 100 treated children were examined with the 14-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire immediately before the operation and 3 days afterward; to establish a baseline for control purposes, they completed another questionnaire 10 days postoperatively. We also compiled data for the mothers' demographic information and the children's physical status.

Tinnitus pitch and minimum masking levels in different etiologies.

Objective: We sought to determine whether the results of audiological tests and tinnitus characteristics, particularly tinnitus pitch and minimum masking level (MML), depend on tinnitus etiology, and what other etiology-specific tinnitus characteristics there are.

Design: The patients answered questions concerning tinnitus laterality, duration, character, aggravation, alleviation, previous treatment, and circumstances of onset. The results of tympanometry, pure-tone audiometry, distortion-product otoacoustic emissions, tinnitus likeness spectrum, MML, and uncomfortable loudness level were evaluated.

Subacute rhinitis in infants: gastroesophageal reflux must be considered.

Objectives: The study sought to evaluate the influence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and allergy on subacute rhinitis in infants.

Methods: Mothers of 74 infants with subacute rhinitis completed the Infant Gastroesophageal Reflux Questionnaire Revised. Participants with GERD were randomized to undergo one of the following regimens for 10 days: use of fluorometholone nasal drops with positional and feeding changes; positional and feeding changes; or a placebo.

Perioperative antibiotic in adenoidectomy with partial tonsillectomy: a randomized trial.

Objectives: To examine potential benefits of perioperative antibiotic therapy in children undergoing adenotonsillotomy.

Methods: Adenoidectomy with tonsillotomy was performed in 124 children with obstructive symptoms, aged 5-7 years. Of these, 120 completed the study.

Factors affecting outcome of inferior turbinate mucotomy in treatment of postnasal drip syndrome.

Background: Postnasal drip syndrome may result from isolated hyperplasia of nasal inferior turbinates due to chronic rhinitis. Mucotomy (conchotomy) performed in such patients is generally effective but in some individuals the problem persists after surgery.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine factors influencing outcome of the therapy.

[Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage--do coagulation tests and coagulopathy history have predictive value?].

Objectives: Determining post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage (PTH) risk factors is crucial for preventing it. The aim of the study was to analyse results of coagulation tests and preoperative family and medical history of coagulation disorders in order to establish if they have predictive value for PTH.

Methods: In 222 patients aged 15-60 years, values of APTT (Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time), prothrombin/INR ratio and platelet count as well as medical history were analysed and 15 episodes of secondary PTH occurred.

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the sino-nasal tract in children.

Childhood head and neck cancers are relatively uncommon. Of all head and neck cancers occurring in children, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is the most common, others being rhabdomyosarcoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In the head and neck region, sinuses are the second commonest primary site of NHL after neck lymph nodes.

Why do palatine tonsils grow back after partial tonsillectomy in children?

Within the last decade, adenoidectomy with partial tonsillectomy has been revived in children with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing caused by adenotonsillar hyperplasia, generating debate about remaining tonsillar tissue regrowth. The study examined potential risk factors of the regrowth. Prospective, nonrandomised, case series feasibility study of children meeting the criteria for palatine tonsils regrowth after partial tonsillectomy performed in patients with obstructive sleep-related breathing disorder was carried out.

WITHDRAWN: Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage-Do coagulation tests and coagulopathy history have predictive value?

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Do diet and activity restrictions influence recovery after adenoidectomy and partial tonsillectomy?

Objective: To determine if restrictions of postoperative diet concerning hard food and hot drinks as well as excessive physical exertion influence recovery during 14 days after T&A surgery.

Methods: 800 patients aged 3-13 years (median 6) underwent curette adenoidectomy with or without scissors tonsillotomy. 413 adenoidectomies and 387 adenotonsillotomies were performed.

Development of rat tibia innervation: colocalization of autonomic nerve fiber markers with growth-associated protein 43.

Development of autonomic innervation of the tibia was investigated in rat fetuses on gestational days (GD) 17-21 and in juvenile animals on postnatal days (PD) 1-28. Double immunofluorescence combined with confocal microscopy was applied to study colocalization of neuronal growth- associated protein 43 (GAP-43) and panneuronal marker protein gene product 9.5 (PGP) with markers of the autonomic nervous system: neuropeptide Y (NPY) and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DbetaH) for adrenergic, as well as vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) for cholinergic fibers.

Respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma of the anterior nasal septum a rare localisation of an unusual tumour in a child: a case report.

Introduction: Hamartomas are non-neoplastic lesions constituted by a mixture of tissues indigenous to the region. Respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartomas are characterised by glandular proliferation lined by ciliated airway epithelium. Their localisation in the nasal cavity is rare and most frequent cases described so far were associated with the posterior nasal septum.

[An attempt to evaluate the reliability of coagulation tests in postoperative haemorrhages in patients operated for tonsil disorders].

Postoperative haemorrhage is an important complication of surgical procedures performed on adenoids and tonsils. They occur rarely but they seriously endanger the patients. Determining risk factors of the postoperative haemorrhages might be very important.

Giant schwannoma of the cheek--a comprehensive histological and immunohistochemical description of a rare tumour.

Schwannoma is a benign tumour originating from Schwann cells forming sheaths of peripheral nerves. Its location in the oral cavity, and particularly in the cheek, is very rare. A large tumour (5 cm) was surgically removed from the left cheek of a fifty-five-year-old man and pathological examination revealed schwannoma with Antoni A and B patterns.