OBJECTIVES This study describes the prevalence and nature of auditory and otological manifestations in adults with HIV/AIDS through clinical examinations and self-reported symptoms across stages of disease progression. DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional group design. STUDY SAMPLE Two hundred HIV positive adult patients (56.5% male; 43.5% female; mean age: 37.99 ± 6.66 years) attending the I...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the OtoClear Safe Irrigation System for removing cerumen from the external auditory canal in children. METHODS Eligible subjects were 6 months-17 years of age with cerumen obstructing > or = 50% of the tympanic membrane (TM) from view (by otoscopy). Pneumatic otoscopy, tympanometry, and audiometry were performed followed by cleansing of the aff...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association of insuflation maneuvers status before hyperbaric oxygen therapy with middle ear barotrauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fouty-one patients (82 ears) admitted to the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine from May 2011 to July 2012. Assessments occurred: before and after the first session, after sessions with symptoms. During the evaluations were performed: otoscopy ...

We report the development of a novel otoscopy probe for assessing middle ear anatomy and function. Video imaging and phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography are combined within the same optical path. A sound stimuli channel is incorporated as well to study middle ear function. Thus, besides visualizing the morphology of the middle ear, the vibration amplitude and frequency of the eardrum a...

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...

Background: Postauricular cutaneous mastoid fistula (PCMF) is quite rare. Possible triggers include a radical mastoidectomy, chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), or the spontaneous exteriorization of cholesteatoma through postauricular skin surface. Case Report: This study reported 62-year-old woman who presented with right-sided discharging lesion for two years and history ear discharge ov...