The role of electrocochleography and the caloric test in predicting short-term recurrence of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Objective: The study aimed to assess the value of physiological tests for evaluating inner ear function in predicting the short-term recurrence of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

Materials And Methods: The clinical information of all idiopathic BPPV patients who were treated in our clinic between February 2021 and December 2022 were reviewed. All patients included in the study had completed audiology examinations including pure tone audiometry, electrocochleography (EcochG), auditory brainstem response, and vestibular function examination such as the vestibular caloric test.

Delayed progressive sensorineural hearing loss due to a novel compound heterozygous PTPRQ mutation in a Chinese patient.

Background: The Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor Q (PTPRQ) gene encodes a member of the type III receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase family found in the stereocilium. Mutations in PTPRQ are mostly associated with deafness, autosomal recessive type 84 (DFNB 84), which usually results in progressive familial hearing loss.

Methods: A 25-year-old woman and her sister, both with postlingual-delayed progressive sensorineural hearing loss, were examined.

Clinical anatomy of superior laryngeal artery via transoral approach.

Objective: Hemorrhage is the most common complication caused by transoral laryngopharyngeal surgery. It is believed that proper management of the superior laryngeal artery (SLA), the main feeding artery for the larynx and pharynx, may reduce intra- and postoperative hemorrhage incidence. The aim of this study was to illustrate the anatomy of the SLA via transoral endoscopic approach.

Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation With Prolonged Time Intervals.

Purpose The aim of the study was to assess whether sequential cochlear implantation (CI) with a prolonged interimplant interval ( = 15.2 years) between the first and second CIs benefited speech recognition and health-related quality of life. Method This prospective study included 14 prelingually deafened participants who received their second CI after a prolonged interimplant interval ( = 15.

Whole exome sequencing identifies SCD5 as a novel causative gene for autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafness.

We report a genetic assessment of autosomal dominant, nonsyndromic, progressive sensorineural hearing loss in a Chinese family, combining whole-exome sequencing and genome-wide linkage analysis. A novel missense mutation, c.626G > C, in the SCD5 gene was identified in this family.

[Analyses prognostic factors relevant to sudden sensorineural hearing loss].

Objective: To investigate the prognostic factors relevant to sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods: The internationally accepted standardized clinical research methods, unified design, and unified program were adopted to conduct the prospective clinical multi-center study. The sudden deafness patients between 18 to 65 years old, with the course of this disorder less than two weeks, and without any medical treatments were collected, and then, divided into four types according to the hearing curve: type A, acute sensorineural hearing loss in low tone frequencies; type B, acute sensorineural hearing loss in high tone frequencies; type C, acute sensorineural hearing loss in all frequencies; and type D, total deafness.

[Surgical treatment for advanced carcinoma of hypopharynx and laryngeal function preservation].

Objective: To evaluate the treatment outcome advanced hypopharyngeal carcinoma by surgery with laryngeal function preservation.

Methods: Twenty cases with squamous cell carcinoma of the hypopharynx who were treated by the function preserved surgery between January 2000 and March 2012 were reviewed. Of the patients 19 were males and 1 female, and their median age was 62.