OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to obtain norm values for a young adult Turkish group and to investigate the differences between female and male subjects in terms of wideband tympanometry. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred ten young adult volunteers (mean±SD: 21.1±1.9 years) participated in this study. The measurements of wideband tympanometry were performed at octave frequencies between ...

The most common middle ear diseases are otitis media with effusion (OME), acute otitis media (AOM) and chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM)). Diagnosing middle ear disease is based mainly on inspection of the tympanic membrane (TM) and indirect measurements of the status of the middle ear. (Tables 1, 2; Figure 1) To improve diagnostic accuracy in general practice the important factors are as...

We present a deep metric variational autoencoder for multi-modal data generation. The employs triplet loss in the latent space, which allows conditional generation by sampling new embeddings space within each class cluster. approach is evaluated on dataset consisting of otoscopy images tympanic membrane with corresponding wideband tympanometry measurements. modalities this are correlated, as th...

INTRODUCTION Controversies arise with respect to functioning of the middle ear over time. OBJECTIVE To assess changes in middle ear impedance that may be related to aging, and/or if there was an association of these changes with those of the inner ear in the elderly patients. METHODS Cross-sectional, comparative study of elderly patients managed in ear, nose and throat clinics. A structured...

The diagnosis of the ossicular condition, fixation or interruption, is often not achieved by the routine tympanometry. A new tympanometric system has been developed in order to improve the diagnostic value. This produces a sweep-frequency probe tone of 200 to 2000Hz and measures the sound pressure difference and the phase difference between the output and the input. An experimental study was pe...

Seventeen children with previous bacterial meningitis and 17 sib controls were examined clinically and otoscopically. They were also tested with air-conduction and bone-conduction audiometry and evaluated by tympanometry. There were no major neurological abnormalities and few otoscopical signs of ear disease. 21% of the ears showed abnormalities on air-conduction audiometry but all were normal ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of intranasal aqueous triamcinolone acetonide in treating the tympanometric signs and symptoms of eustachian tube dysfunction, such as otitis media with effusion and negative middle ear pressure. DESIGN Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind prospective clinical trial. SETTING Tertiary referral clinic. PATIENTS Adults (≥18 years) and children (6-1...

OBJECTIVE Otitis media with effusion (OME) is a condition in which fluid is retained in the middle ear cavity. The association between endocrine disorders and OME has not yet been determined. This study aimed to investigate the presence of OME in children diagnosed with an endocrine disease and the relationship between these two conditions. METHODS The study was conducted on 918 pediatric pat...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of middle ear alterations in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. METHODS In this descriptive study, 120 CF patients aged 5 months to 18 years were assessed by clinical history, otoscopy, and tympanometry. Data on P. aeruginosa colonization and parenteral and/or inhaled aminoglycoside use were also collected from medical charts. RESULTS Clinical history revealed...

UNLABELLED Mismatch Negativity (MMN) is used to evaluate the central auditory system. AIM to characterize the MMN, in normal subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS prospective study, 12 subjects, six males and six females, between the ages of 18 and 24. "Mann-Whytnei" test. EXAMS: Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA), Tympanometry, Otoacoustic Emissions and Short and Long Latency Auditory Potentials (MMN). ...