Welcome to the August 2016 issue of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery! As the summer winds down and back-to-school preparations are well underway, please let me offer a few interesting papers that will hopefully allow the season to linger for at least a few more weeks. In the first paper this month, Hunter and colleagues offer a short communication about their experience with cochlear implan...

100% and pansinusitis. They needed antibiotic scheme. At 2 years in 83.3% had a VAS.7. At 58.3% had pansinusitis. The bronchial relapse did not increase. We determined the presence of VAS. 7 and pansinusitis (OR 1⁄4 4). The bronchial relapse did not influence with increasing VAS (OR 1⁄4 1). Conclusions: Nasal symptoms persistent were secondary to the nasal polyps and pansinusitis with higher le...

Drug hypersensitivity can preclude patients from receiving the drug of choice to treat a specific illness. In some cases, such as penicillin allergy in a pregnant woman with syphilis,1 the drug is clearly indicated, and allergists may be called on to induce temporary drug tolerance (desensitize). In other cases, the medication benefit is not as clear, and allergists must weigh desensitization (...

BACKGROUND Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease is under-diagnosed and therefore effective and inexpensive therapy with aspirin desensitization is rarely performed. METHODS We present an audit of 150 patients with difficult to treat nasal polyposis, 132 of whom also had asthma, 131 of whom underwent challenge with the only soluble form of aspirin, lysine aspirin (LAS), to confirm or exclud...

c 2017 The Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility J Neurogastroenterol Motil, Vol. 23 No. 2 April, 2017 www.jnmjournal.org TO THE EDITOR: We read with great interest the paper by Özdemir et al on the assay of lipid-laden macrophages (LLMs) in broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of patients with chronic cough as a marker of micro-aspiration of refluxate into airways. The authors fo...