introduction: conductive hearing loss due to chronic otitis media (com) can be treated by surgery. com, however, may be associated with functional damage to the inner ear. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) due to com has been found to be significant by some authors, whereas it has been considered negligible by others. the present study aimed to answer the question does com cause snhl ? methods:...

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to identify the correlations of bacterial strains of the middle ear and the nasopharynx in chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) patients who were scheduled for operations. METHODS Sixty-three patients with CSOM were enrolled in the study. Culture specimens were collected from the middle ear and nasopharynx of patients who were admitted for operatio...

An analog network model of the human middle ear is used to study the effect of terminal loads on the middle ear frequency response. A new transformer ratio value is computed and used to improve the model of the middle ear through the use of an ideal transformer. The terminal loads are taken as the loads on either side of the middle ear. The forward and reverse frequency characteristics of the m...

RESUMO O objetivo foi analisar o financiamento e gasto público federal do Esporte de Alto Rendimento (EAR) no Ciclo Rio 2016. Trata-se uma pesquisa com abordagem quanti-qualitativa, a partir da análise dos documentos coletados Portal Transparência Legislação Governo Federal. No 2016, Federal criou diferentes dispositivos políticos legais que buscaram alçar Brasil à potência esportiva; eles refl...

Introduction: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is one of the possible complications of radiotherapy treatment of brain tumors. The auditory system of patients with brain tumors often is placed inside of radiation field and receives a significant amount of radiation dose resulting in hearing loss. The purpose of this study was to compare contouring and delivery dose to cochlea...

Diagonal ear lobe creases, often known as Frank's sign, are a folding in the skin of the ear lobe. Many studies have found an association between diagonal ear lobe creases and coronary artery disease. To our knowledge, this is the first report of paired ear creases of the helix. They may have similar relevance to cardiovascular disease as the diagonal ear lobe creases. We report the case of a 6...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether middle ear cholesteatoma is associated with, sensorineural hearing loss, and whether patient age, cholesteatoma growth pattern, or, air bone gap size contribute to inner ear impairment. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional comparative. SETTING A tertiary hospital. PATIENTS The subjects were 115 patients with middle ear cholesteatoma in one ear, and normal video-otos...

OBJECTIVE Ear-EEG is recording of electroencephalography from a small device in the ear. This is the first study to compare ictal and interictal abnormalities recorded with ear-EEG and simultaneous scalp-EEG in an epilepsy monitoring unit. METHODS We recorded and compared simultaneous ear-EEG and scalp-EEG from 15 patients with suspected temporal lobe epilepsy. EEGs were compared visually by ...