OBJECTIVE We report three cases of recurrent, unilateral facial palsy associated with air travel. METHOD The three cases are presented, along with a brief literature review concerning barotrauma and its association with air travel and facial palsy. RESULTS All three patients experienced unilateral facial paralysis during air travel, accompanied by additional symptoms which varied between ca...

We present the case of a 38-year-old male in treatment for morbid obesity for 6 years, who had lost 20 kg of weight in the previous 12 months and who attended consultation after being assessed by 3 other professionals. The patient had also undergone placement of a ventilation tube in the left ear due to a sensation described as auditory ‘‘vibration’’ and autophony in the left ear, with 1.5 year...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this eustachian tube and middle ear diseases, how can you bargain with the thing that has ma...

otitis media with effusion (ome) is one of the most common causes of hearing loss (hl) in children. it has been reported that several factors such as eustachian tube dysfunction, insufficiencies in the aeration of the mastoid cells, allergies, immunity, and infections play an important role in the etiology of the disease. little is known about the role of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) in extr...

Sinan Akbayram1, Kamuran Karaman1*, Hatice Tuba Akbayram2, Mesut Garipardic1 and Ahmet Faik Oner1 1Department of Pediatric Hematology, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey 2Department of Family Medicine, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey *Corresponding author: Kamuran Karaman, Department Of Pediatric Haematology, Yuzuncu Yil University, 65100, Van, Turkey, Tel:+90 04322147404; Email: kamuran_k...

Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the main phospholipid in lung surfactant and, more specifically, dipalmitoyl PC (PC16:0/16:0) is the major surface-active component. Several studies have tentatively shown that eustachian tube lavage fluid (ETLF) contains surface-active material. The aim of the present study was to determine, using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, whether the phospholipid m...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to establish the rate variation of sonotubometric measurements using a specific broadband class of signals, the so-called perfect sequences (PSEQ) among healthy adults and to identify an optimal and technically simple test to provoke Eustachian tube (ET) openings. METHODS Sonotubometry was performed on 105 healthy adult subjects. Three different consecutiv...

BACKGROUND Chronic otitis media with effusion is a persistent complication essentially universal in children with cleft palate. The prevalence of chronic otitis media with effusion is hypothesized to be a result of Eustachian tube dysfunction secondary to the anomalous insertion of the palatal musculature. This study was designed to evaluate the timing of tympanostomy tube placement and the eff...