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Assessing the efficacy of perilymphatic fistula repair surgery in alleviating vestibular symptoms and associated auditory impairments

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2023
Perilymph Fistula (PLF), abnormal communication between the fluid-filled space of the inner ear and the air-filled space of the middle ear, is a significant cause of vestibular and auditory symptoms. This is a retrospective study of 22 cases treated with
Han Matsuda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tympanostomy tube placement for pressure‐sensitive vertigo

open access: yesLaryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2022
Objective To evaluate tympanostomy tube placement in patients with pressure‐sensitive vertigo. Methods Retrospective case series. Results Six patients with pressure‐sensitive vertigo reported resolution of their vertigo and other vestibular symptoms ...
Mehdi Abouzari   +4 more
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Preservation of Inner Ear Functions: Extending Glucocorticoid Therapy by Tissue-Protective α1-Antitrypsin

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
Protecting tissues from excessive inflammation by glucocorticoids results in an effective blockade of inflammation; however, it does not instigate processes of inflammatory resolution or tissue repair.
Amit Amar   +3 more
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Congenital Membranous Stapes Footplate Producing Episodic Pressure-Induced Perilymphatic Fistula Symptoms

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2020
Introduction: Recent third window syndrome studies have revealed that the intact bony labyrinth and differences in the stiffness of the oval and round windows are essential for proper cochlear and vestibular function.
Han Matsuda   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traumatic Stapediovestibular Dislocation With Intact Stapes: Report and Review

open access: yesEar, Nose & Throat Journal, 2022
Stapediovestibular dislocation is a rare disorder as a result of traumatic injury to the structures in the middle ear. We described a case of a 60-year-old female with stapediovestibular dislocation with associated perilymph fistula.
Qinzhan Ren MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waiting for Attention and Care: Birthing Accounts of Women in Rural Tanzania who Developed Obstetric Fistula as an Outcome of Labour. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
\ud Obstetric fistula is a physically and socially disabling obstetric complication that affects about 3,000 women in Tanzania every year. The fistula, an opening that forms between the vagina and the bladder and/or the rectum, is most frequently caused ...
Evjen-Olsen, Bjørg   +14 more
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Treatment of the fistula tract with laser ablation in high anal fistula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Aim and introduction: Considering the recurrence and fecal incontinence rates in high anal fistulas, surgical treatment of anal fistulas is a challenging process, although many treatments have been defined today.
Erkan Karacan, Eyüp Murat Yılmaz
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New model of superior semicircular canal dehiscence with reversible diagnostic findings characteristic of patients with the disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2023
BackgroundThird window syndrome is a vestibular-cochlear disorder in humans in which a third mobile window of the otic capsule creates changes to the flow of sound pressure energy through the perilymph/endolymph.
P. Ashley Wackym   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Noise-Induced Perilymph Fistula [PDF]

open access: yesEar, Nose & Throat Journal, 2006
Perilymph fistulae are difficult to diagnose because they present with a wide variety of signs and symptoms, they are associated with many etiologies, and they often mimic other conditions. In this article, we describe a case of perilymph fistula that featured one of its more rare causes: acoustic trauma—specifically, damage from a loud blast from the ...
Brian, Kung, Robert T, Sataloff
openaire   +2 more sources

Membranous or Hypermobile Stapes Footplate: A New Anatomic Site Resulting in Third Window Syndrome

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2020
Objectives: To describe a potentially underappreciated pathology for post-traumatic persistent intractable dizziness and third window syndrome as well as the methods to diagnose and surgically manage this disorder.Study Design: Observational analytic ...
Arun K. Gadre   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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