Correlating atmospheric pressure and temperature with Meniere attack.

Objective: This paper correlated the Meniere attack with meteorological parameters i.e. atmospheric pressure, temperature, relative humidity and rainfall, to investigate which parameters that trigger the Meniere attack.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Associated With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a self-limited disease that is more common in young Asian women. Typical presentations included fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. The etiology of KFD is unknown, and diagnosis is based mainly on lymph node biopsy.

Exosome-Derived LINC00960 and LINC02470 Promote the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Aggressiveness of Bladder Cancer Cells.

Exosomes are essential for several tumor progression-related processes, including the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) comprise a major group of exosomal components and regulate the neoplastic development of several cancer types; however, the progressive role of exosomal lncRNAs in bladder cancer have rarely been addressed. In this study, we identified two potential aggressiveness-promoting exosomal lncRNAs, LINC00960 and LINC02470.

Evolution of Meniere's Disease from MD 1.0, via MD 1.5, to MD 2.0.

Elder Meniere's disease (MD) patients ultimately lose their vestibular function. This study utilized an inner ear test battery to investigate evolution of MD. Total 278 elder MD patients aged >65 years were divided into three groups.

Factors associated with changing indications for adenotonsillectomy: A population-based longitudinal study.

Objective: Adenotonsillectomy (AT) is one of the most common surgical procedures performed in children and adults. We aim to assess the factors associated with changes in the incidence of and indications for AT using population-level data.

Study Design: This retrospective cohort study investigated patients who underwent AT between 1997 and 2010 by using data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.

N-acetylcysteine as a single therapy for sudden deafness.

Conclusion: Like NAC ameliorates hearing loss from acoustic trauma in the inner ear, NAC may also rescue hearing loss from sudden deafness confined to the inner ear.

Objective: This study assesses the effect of N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) as a single therapy for sudden deafness.

Methods: Thirty-five sudden deafness patients with neither systemic disorders nor central signs in electronystagmography were treated with NAC alone and assigned to Group A.

KTP laser assisted endoscopic tissue fibrin glue biocauterization for congenital pyriform sinus fistula in children.

Objective: This study aims to assess the efficacy of a novel endoscopic management for congenital pyriform sinus fistula (CPSF) using potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser assisted endoscopic tissue fibrin glue biocauterization in children.

Method: From 2010 to 2014, a total of 5 children with recurrent or acute suppurative thyroiditis or neck abscess secondary to CPSF were enrolled retrospectively in this study.

Results: Mean age at the first time of endoscopic biocauterization was 6.

Secondary Endolymphatic Hydrops After Acoustic Trauma.

Objective: This study applied an inner ear test battery in patients with secondary hydrops after acoustic trauma to assess the inner ear deficits.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: University hospital.

Evaluation of bile reflux in HIDA images based on fluid mechanics.

We propose a new method to help physicians assess, using a hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid scan image, whether or not there is bile reflux into the stomach. The degree of bile reflux is an important index for clinical diagnosis of stomach diseases. The proposed method applies image-processing technology combined with a hydrodynamic model to determine the extent of bile reflux or whether the duodenum is also folded above the stomach.

Bilateral Meniere's disease assessed by an inner ear test battery.

Conclusion: An inner ear test battery may suggest bilateral involvement and aid in 'grading' of potential disease in a patient with actively symptomatic Meniere's disease (MD).

Objectives: This study applied an inner ear test battery in patients with bilateral MD to map the inner ear deficits in each ear.

Methods: From 2009 to 2012, 100 (20%) of 498 MD patients were diagnosed with bilateral involvement, which was defined as established MD in one ear, and the opposite ear had inner ear symptoms combined with documented hearing loss.

Test battery of cranial nerves VII and VIII for assessing herpes zoster oticus.

Objective: This study adopted a test battery of cranial nerves (CNs) VII and VIII comprising a facial nerve function test, audiometry, a caloric test, and ocular and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP and cVEMP, respectively) tests to assess the function of CNs VII and VIII comprehensively so as to predict facial nerve recovery in patients with herpes zoster oticus (HZO).

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: University hospital.

Correlating vestibular schwannoma size with vestibular-evoked myogenic potential results.

Objectives: The maximum size of the vestibular schwannoma (VS) that is compatible with preservation of the function of the vestibular nerve in performing stereotactic radiosurgery remains unclear. This study utilized ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) and cervical VEMP (cVEMP) test results to correlate with the size of VS.

Design: Fifty patients with unilateral VS underwent audiometry, and caloric, oVEMP and cVEMP tests.

Registering grades of sudden deafness to predict the hearing outcome via an inner-ear test battery.

Objectives: An inner ear test battery comprising audiometry and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP), cervical VEMP (cVEMP), and caloric tests was applied to patients with sudden deafness to map their lesions and predict hearing outcome.

Design: Retrospective study.

Study Sample: Seventy-five patients with unilateral sudden deafness underwent an inner-ear test battery.

Selective effects of head posture on ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) by bone-conducted vibration.

Objective: By altering head postures from sitting, supine to head hanging, this study investigated the effects of gravitational force on ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) via either air-conducted sound (ACS) or bone-conducted vibration (BCV) stimuli.

Methods: Twenty healthy volunteers underwent the oVEMP test via ACS or BCV stimuli with the sitting, supine, and head hanging positions on the same day in a randomized order.

Results: All subjects had clear BCV oVEMPs in the three head postures.

Differentiating cerebellopontine angle meningioma from schwannoma using caloric testing and vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials.

Objective: This study utilized audiometry, and caloric, ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) and cervical VEMP (cVEMP) tests to differentiate between cerebellopontine angle (CPA) meningioma and schwannoma.

Patients And Methods: Eleven CPA meningioma patients with mean tumor size 2.8±1.

Clinical significance of pathological eye movements in diagnosing posterior fossa stroke.

Conclusion: Close observation of pathological eye movements such as disconjugate eye movements, multi-directional gaze nystagmus, and persistent unilateral gaze nystagmus may facilitate the effort of clinicians to arrange magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study, because physical examinations may overlook the posterior fossa lesions.

Objective: This paper reviews our experience of patients with posterior fossa stroke via observation of pathological eye movements over the past 10 years.

Methods: Seventy patients with posterior fossa stroke manifested as acute vertiginous attack were admitted.

Optimizing the bandpass filter for acoustic stimuli in recording ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials.

This study aimed to determine the optimal bandpass filter (BPF) setting for acoustic stimuli in recording the ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP). Twelve healthy volunteers underwent oVEMP tests using acoustic stimuli with various high-pass filters (1, 10 and 100Hz) and low-pass filters (500, 1000 and 2000Hz). Initially, various effects of high-pass filter on the oVEMPs were examined under Conditions A (BPF of 1-1000Hz), B (BPF of 10-1000Hz) and C (BPF of 100-1000Hz).

Development of ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials in small children.

Objectives/hypothesis: This study investigated the development of otolithic-ocular reflex in small children (<3 years old) via the ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) test.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Methods: Twenty full-term newborns (group A), 15 children aged 1 to 3 years (group B), and 15 children aged 4 to 13 years (group C) were enrolled in this study.

Ocular and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials in Tumarkin falls.

Objective: This study applied ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) and cervical VEMP (cVEMP) tests in Ménière's patients with Tumarkin falls to investigate the etiologic role of the saccule/utricle in the event of Tumarkin falls.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: University hospital.

Correlation between acceleration magnitude and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential.

This study combined bone-conducted vibration (BCV) stimulation with triaxial accelerometry to correlate the acceleration magnitudes of BCV stimuli with ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) test results. Fourteen healthy volunteers underwent oVEMP test using BCV stimuli with simultaneous monitoring the triaxial acceleration. All (100%) subjects exhibited clear oVEMPs in response to BCV stimuli from a vibrator.

The immunoregulatory effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester on the cytokine secretion of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from asthmatic children.

Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways for which current treatments are mainly based on pharmacological interventions, such as glucocorticoid therapy. Our objective was to study the immunoregulatory effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE, a phytochemical synthesized from propolis) on cytokine secretion of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from asthmatic children.

Methods: PBMCs from asthmatic children (5.

Correlation between caloric and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential test results.

Conclusion: The ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (o-VEMP) test results correlate significantly with caloric test results for patients with acoustic neuroma (AN), but not for patients with Meniere's disease (MD), indicating that the o-VEMP test may replace the caloric test for evaluating the vestibular nerve from which the AN arises. Conversely, the caloric, o-VEMP, and cervical VEMP (c-VEMP) tests should be performed to map lesion sites in the vestibular labyrinth.

Objective: This study performed caloric, o-VEMP, and c-VEMP tests on patients with central and peripheral vestibular disorders to investigate their relationships.

Disorders affecting the fourth ventricle: etiology and clinical correlates.

Objective: The fourth ventricle encompasses many vital structures including the brainstem as its floor and the cerebellum as its lateral wall and roof. Therefore, lesions affecting the fourth ventricle may present as cerebellar or brainstem manifestations. Herein, we presented our experience in the diagnosis of disorders affecting the fourth ventricle during the past 15 years.