Comparing effects of low and high-flow anesthesia on hemorheology and coagulation factors.

Objectives: In the current study, we compared the effects of low- and high-flow anesthesia techniques on hemorheology and coagulation parameters in patients who received sevofluran.

Methods: Forty patients classified as Risk Group I-II according to American Society of Anesthesiologists' (ASA) guidelines who were scheduled to undergo general anesthesia were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Low-flow anesthesia was administered to the first group, and high-flow anesthesia was used in the second group.

Delayed surgical treatment of traumatic hearing loss due to ossicular disruption.

Objective: Surgical treatment of dislocation and fracture of the middle ear ossicles is recommended to be carried out within months of the initial injury. Here we present 6 patients with traumatic ossicular injury whose surgery was delayed over 1 year. We evaluated the clinical and pathological changes that occurred over time and assessed the surgical outcomes in delayed cases.

Two-stage aural atresia and stenosis surgery with the use of synthetic skin substitute.

Conclusion: With this technique, patency rates achieved in congenital external ear canal (EAC) atresia/stenosis and improvement in hearing were evaluated as 'good' and 'satisfactory', respectively.

Objectives: We aimed to test the efficacy of a novel two-stage technique in preventing restenosis following atresioplasty.

Patients And Methods: Nine patients with congenital EAC atresia/stenosis comprised our cases.

Otologic and leptomeningeal involvements as presenting features in seronegative Wegener granulomatosis.

Wegener granulomatosis is an immune-mediated, systemic vasculitis with unknown etiology that can be seen in almost any anatomical site. Positivity for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antigene, which is a serological marker, and presence of granulomatous vasculitis in histopathologic specimens from the lesions are accepted as diagnostic. A case of Wegener granulomatosis whose presenting symptoms and signs are related to otologic and meningeal involvement of the disease is reported.

Adenoid hypertrophy in adults: clinical and morphological characteristics.

This study compared the aetiology and pathological characteristics of adult and childhood adenoid hypertrophy (AH). Clinical and morphological features and accompanying otolaryngological pathologies were recorded in 40 adults and 23 children undergoing adenoidectomy for obstructive AH. Both AH forms were similar in terms of symptomatology and associated inflammations.

Rhinolithiasis: clinical, radiological, and mineralogical features.

Background: Rhinolithiasis is a rare and under-diagnosed clinical entity whose etiology and pathogenesis is poorly understood.

Objective: The objective of the study is to review the clinical and radiologic features of rhinolithiasis and mineralogical-chemical composition of the rhinoliths with the aim of shedding light on its etiology and pathogenesis.

Methods: Our subjects consisted of 8 rhinolithiasis cases.