introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of combined intratympanic and systemic steroid therapy compared with systemic steroid therapy alone in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (issnhl) patients with poor prognostic factors.     materials and methods: seventy-seven patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ssnhl) who had at least one poor prognostic fa...

objective: we sought to determine the usefulness of the 99mtc-mibi (mibi) washout rate for the evaluation of steroid therapy in cardiac sarcoidosis (cs). methods: eleven cs patients underwent mibi myocardial spect both before and 6 months after initiating steroid therapy. the washout rate (wor) of mibi was calculated using early and delayed polar map images. the washout score (wos) of mibi was ...