ଝ Lesiones maculares telangiectásicas en mujer de 90 años Medical History The patient was a 90-year-old woman who had a personal history of severe hypoacusis and osteoporosis and was not receiving chronic treatment. She consulted for several asymptomatic lesions on her chest, shoulders, and upper back. The lesions had appeared suddenly 5 years earlier, had never been treated, and had been stabl...

Usher syndrome is a group of autosomal recessive genetic disorders characterized by deafness, retinitis pigmentosa, and sometimes vestibular areflexia. The relationship between Usher syndrome and mental disorders, most commonly a "schizophrenia-like" psychosis, is sometimes described in the literature. The etiology of psychiatric expression of Usher syndrome is still unclear. We reported a case...

arotid aneurysms from the petrous segment are rare. They re usually asymptomatic and do not present with a subrachnoid haemorrhage. Clinical presentation depends on neurysm’s location, size, and direction of growth. Aneurysms n close proximity to the medium ear may cause hypoacusis nd tinnitus. Otorrhagia and epistaxis may also occur after the upture of an aneurysm, as well as Horner’s syndrome...

mitochondrial disorders (mids) may occasionaly go along with dysmorphism but hand deformities, as in the following case, have been only rarely reported. a 72 year old female with ptosis, hypoacusis, tremor, myopathy, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, severe cardiac disease, pulmonary hypertension, gastric carcinoid, hepatopathy, generalised atherosclerosis, anemia, polyarthrosis, and hy...

Hypoacusis is the most prevalent sensory disability in the world and consequently, it can lead to impede speech in human beings. One best approach to tackle this issue is to conduct early and effective hearing screening test using Electroencephalogram (EEG). EEG based hearing threshold level determination is most suitable for persons who lack verbal communication and behavioral response to soun...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of ozone and pressure-pulse therapies in treating Ménière's disease. Using objective otoacoustic emissions and short-increment sensitivity index (SISI) tests together with subjective anamnesis, we tested 15 patients (8 men, 7 women) who had suffered from Ménière's disease for 1-3 years and had permanent sensorineural hypoacusis; we compared r...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of the state of health, quality of life, and relationship between the level of the quality of life and health status in a group of women at advanced age (90 and more years) in Poland. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was conducted in 2014 in an all-Polish sample of 870 women aged 90 and over. The research instruments were: the author's questionnaire, and standardized tests: ...

SECTION 1 A 46-year-old right-handed African American man presented to the emergency department after a 10minute episode of sudden-onset left-hand weakness and slurred speech. His medical history was significant for a left cerebellar stroke 6 years ago. That event occurred during a physical training exercise and was thought to be secondary to a vertebral artery dissection.1,2 He was placed on a...

Few cases of severe postnatally acquired cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection are reported in premature infants. We report on an extremely low birthweight (ELBW) preterm infant who presented with a sepsis-like syndrome and multiple organ involvement, notably pneumonitis and colitis. The course of infection was assessed by repeated analysis of urine, tracheal aspirates and blood. The patient was give...