Published in Acta oto-laryngologica
The current context of Covid-19 pandemic has broadened mask use. Evaluate the impact of wearing a surgical mask on sense of smell by comparing the results of sniffin' sticks test (SST) with and without a surgical mask and evaluate the feasibility of practicing SST with a mask. A crossover prospective comparative study between two groups of voluntee...
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Cochlear implant (CI) infections affect a small, but significant number of patients. Unremitting infections can lead to explantation. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and microbial community profiling (MCP) are methods of studying microbial environments of explanted devices that can provide information to reduce morbidity and costs of infe...
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The effects of graft thickness on tympanoplasty is uncertain. To compare the results of endoscopic tympanoplasty using different thicknesses of autologous tissues. This retrospective analysis included 186 patients who received type I tympanoplasty, divided into three main groups based of grafting material: perichondrium (A), cartilage-perichondrium...
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Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug that can induce sensorineural hearing loss. At present, no otoprotective agent is approved for use. This study investigated the optimal concentration of intratympanic N-acetylcysteine (NAC) to prevent cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in a guinea pig model. Guinea pigs (n = 64) were treated with a single intratympanic i...
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The non-invasive tympanic electrocochleography (TM-ECochG) is useful for clinical diagnoses. Nevertheless, the influence of the electrode location on tympanic membrane (TM) on ECochG results needs to be studied. The aim of the present study was to compare the TM-ECochG results obtained when the electrode was placed on the superior region versus the...
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The risk of head and neck cancers (HNCs) and ear, nose, and throat (ENT) diseases due to second-hand smoke (SHS) have not been fully assessed. To determine which ENT diseases or HNCs are associated with SHS. Data from a survey of a cross-sectional sample of ENT patients (n = 1228) on SHS exposure were compared to control-subject data (n = 6598) fro...
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Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction (EILO) is an exercise-dependent dyspnoea, linked to a laryngeal closure during physical effort. It may concern from 5% to 7% of adolescents and young athletic adults. EILO is a quite recently described condition: standardized diagnostic criteria and consensual management are still to come. Formal diagnosis of ...
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Usher syndrome (USH) typically leads to deaf-blindness, requiring the provision of extensive education and rehabilitation services. Therefore, investigating the prevalence is crucial to requests for proper government support for USH patients. The aim was to perform a nationwide epidemiologic survey of USH in Japan to estimate the prevalence of USH ...
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Due to many different reasons such as possible coronavirus colonization in tonsillar tissue, decreased enzymatic antiviral activity, decreased cytokine activity from palatine tonsil tissue and reduced humoral and cellular immune response, tonsillectomy may alter the incidence of Covid-19. To reveal the frequency of Covid-19 in patients who underwen...
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Locally advanced laryngeal cancers can spread to the thyroid gland by direct invasion of cricothyroid membrane. The prevalence of thyroid gland invasion (TGI) and the predictive factors of TGI were well described in literature. However, the association of TGI with survival was undetermined yet. The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of TGI...
