In this report, we summarize our clinical experience with intratympanic dexamethasone treatment (IDT) for control of tinnitus. From March 2000 through February 2001, we observed 54 patients (23 women, 31 men; mean age, 49.6 +/- 7.2 years; range, 24-71 years) suffering from subjective idiopathic tinnitus (SIT). After common audiological tests had been performed; all patients underwent specific t...

BACKGROUND Intradermal testing (IDT) in cats has potential limitations; this has led to an interest in novel testing methods. A pilot study demonstrated that healthy cats produced reliable percutaneous glycerinated (PG) histamine wheals, whereas percutaneously applied glycerosaline did not lead to wheal formation. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine if percutaneous...

The multilayer structure of surface acoustic wave sensor is an important development direction devices in recent years. In this paper, the IDT/AlN/Mo/diamond pressure sensing element modeled and simulated. influence thickness AlN IDT on coefficient frequency K 2 were simulated analyzed. performance compared when metal layer Mo, no Pt. Finally, relationship between variation designed obtained. T...

Progesterone hypersensitivity (PH) is a rare clinical condition that displays hypersensitivity to endogenous or exogenous progesterone. It is characterized by cyclic dermatologic manifestations at the end of the luteal phase that disappear some days after menses. We present a case of 24-year-old woman showing severe angioedema attacks occurring from the first day of her menstruation and continu...

Idiosyncratic drug toxicity (IDT), considered as a toxic host-dependent event, with an apparent lack of dose response relationship, is usually not predictable from early phases of clinical trials, representing a particularly confounding complication in drug development. Albeit a rare event (usually <1/5000), IDT is often life threatening and is one of the major reasons new drugs never reach the...

Third generation (3G) mobile service has been launched for several years and yet the information systems (IS) community has not yet gained a full understanding of how various technological and social factors affect the intention to adopt this technology. This study probes into this issue using the Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) (Rogers, 1995) along with two other constructs, i.e., subjective...

A prediction method, known as the Coupled Time Scale (CTS) is proposed in current work to estimate ignition delay time (IDT) of liquid spray combustion by only performing an inert simulation and a zero-dimensional (0-D) homogeneous reactor (HR) simulation. The method built upon assumption that if majority vapor regions has composition close most reactive mixture fraction, which can be obtained ...

Local reactions to glatiramer acetate are common, but few cases of hypersensitivity reaction have been reported. We present 3 patients with multiple sclerosis who suffered immediate-type local reactions after subcutaneous injection of glatiramer acetate. Skin prick test (SPT), intradermal test (IDT), and determination of immunoglobulin (Ig) E to glatiramer acetate were performed in patients and...