INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, airway reconstruction has become the treatment of choice for subglottic stenosis (SGS) in children, which is performed in either single or multiple stages. However, there is evidence in the literature that singlestage surgery is more effective. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the success rate of single-stage laryngotracheoplasty (LTP) and cricotracheal...
INTRODUCTION: Hyperplasia of the pharyngeal tonsil is one of the main causes of mouth breathing, and accurate diagnosis of this alteration is important for proper therapeutic planning. Therefore, studies have been conducted in order to provide information regarding the procedures that can be used for the diagnosis of pharyngeal obstruction. OBJECTIVE: To verify the correlation...
INTRODUCTION: Auditory prosthesis is distinguished in function of the lesser technologies that become them each time, more powerful and efficient. The marketing can generate unreal expectations how much to the results with the amplification use, mainly in inexperienced individuals. OBJECTIVE: To verify the relation between expectations and success of the process of election and...
INTRODUCTION: Keloids are benign tumors arising from abnormal healing of the skin, and there are several procedures available for their treatment. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of patients undergoing treatment of keloids after ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeries at our service center. METHOD: We conducted thorough, retrospective and...
INTRODUCTION: The use of conventional tympanometry is not sufficiently sensitive to detect all cases of middle ear changes, and this hinders accurate diagnosis. OBJECTIVE: To characterize acoustic immittance measures of infants from 0 to 3 months of age using multifrequency tympanometry in a prospective study. METHOD: 54 infants from 0 to 3 months of age were evaluated. The...
INTRODUCTION: The precocious diagnosis and the intervention in the deafness are of basic importance in the infantile development. The loss auditory and more prevalent than other joined riots to the birth. OBJECTIVE: Esteem the prevalence of auditory alterations in just-born in a hospital school. METHOD: Prospective transversal study that evaluated 226 justbeen born, been born in...
INTRODUCTION: Practical and portable the personal stereos if had become almost indispensable accessories in the day the day. Studies disclose that the portable players of music can cause auditory damages in the long run for who hear music in high volume for a drawn out time. OBJECTIVE: to verify the prevalence of auditory symptoms in users of amplified players and to know its...
INTRODUCTION: The aging process provokes structural modifications and functional to it greets, compromising the postural control and central processing. Studies have boarded the necessity to identify to the harmful factors of risk to aged the auditory health and security in stricken aged by auditory deficits and with alterations of balance. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of...
EDITORIAL Auditory alterations in the just-been born Dear Colleague,In this journal, we would like to detach an article that deals of just-born auditory health. As told in the study "Prevalence of the auditory alterations in just-born in hospital school", the illness attack one of three children to each 1000 births of healthful babies and two of four to each 1000 births of risk...
INTRODUCTION: Fungal ball of the sinuses is a not invasive infection that if characterizes for its chronicity, being the majority related with previous endodontic treatment. Affect mainly the breasts to maxillary; even so all the breasts can be involved. The main etiological agent is the Aspergillus spp. The computed tomography, had to characteristic the radiological...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this story of case is to describe an uncommon cause of associated peripheral Vestibulopathy to the unilateral auditory loss in aged patient after catheterization of urgency. STORY OF CASE: Patient of the masculine sort, 82 years, submitted to the correction of abdominal ragged aneurism of aorta, in the intra-operative suffered heart attack acute from...
INTRODUCTION: The cocaine is obtained from the leaves of the coca (Erythroxylon coca). It can be used in many ways, but the most common is the drug inhalation. The Cocaine also causes vasoconstriction at nasal mucous membrane and its chronic use can cause necrosis and nasal septum perforation. Pyoderma gangrenosum is an uncommon idiopathic disease characterized by ulcerations...
INTRODUCTION: The attention is an underlying neuropsychology function to all the cognitive processes. The auditory deficiency compromises the normal development of the child, modifying diverse auditory abilities, including the attention. OBJECTIVE: to compare the performance of children in the Test of the Ability of Auditory Attention Support, as for the different forms of...
INTRODUCTION: The cough is the more common respiratory symptom in children and adults. OBJECTIVE: To present a revision on the neurophysiology and the methods for study of the consequence of the cough, as well as the pharmacotherapy and phonoaudiology therapy of the cough, based on the works published between 2005 and 2010 and indexed in the bases Medline, Lilacs and Library...
INTRODUCTION: With the technological advances and the changes in the productive processes, the workers are displayed the different physical and chemical agents in its labor environment. The toluene is solvent an organic gift in glues, inks, oils, amongst others. OBJECTIVE: To compare solvent the literary findings that evidence that diligent displayed simultaneously the noise and...
INTRODUCTION: The injuries caused for the orotracheal intubation are common in our way and widely told by literature. Generally the pipe rank of or consequence of its permanence in the aerial ways of the patient is caused by accidents in. It has diverse types of larynx injuries, caused for multiple mechanisms. OBJECTIVE: To verify, in literature, the main causes of laryngeal...
INTRODUCTION: Several techniques can be performed to improve nasal tip definition such as cartilage resection, tip grafts, or sutures. OBJCTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of lateral intercrural suture at the lower lateral cartilage by endonasal rhinoplasty with a basic technique without delivery in decreasing the angle of domal divergence and improving the nasal tip definition...
INTRODUCTION: In the dentistry practice, dentists are exposed to harmful effects caused by several factors, such as the noise produced by their work instruments. In 1959, the American Dental Association recommended periodical hearing assessments and the use of ear protectors. Aquiring more information regarding dentists', dental nurses', and prosthodontists' hearing abilities is...
INTRODUCTION: The various metabolic and circulatory alterations that are related to noise exposure may cause the onset of several symptoms, including tinnitus. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of tinnitus complaints in elderly individuals with and without history of occupational noise exposure. METHOD: This prospective study was conducted in a...
INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, airway reconstruction has become the treatment of choice for subglottic stenosis (SGS) in children, which is performed in either single or multiple stages. However, there is evidence in the literature that singlestage surgery is more effective. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the success rate of single-stage laryngotracheoplasty (LTP) and cricotracheal...
INTRODUCTION: Hyperplasia of the pharyngeal tonsil is one of the main causes of mouth breathing, and accurate diagnosis of this alteration is important for proper therapeutic planning. Therefore, studies have been conducted in order to provide information regarding the procedures that can be used for the diagnosis of pharyngeal obstruction. OBJECTIVE: To verify the correlation...
INTRODUCTION: Auditory prosthesis is distinguished in function of the lesser technologies that become them each time, more powerful and efficient. The marketing can generate unreal expectations how much to the results with the amplification use, mainly in inexperienced individuals. OBJECTIVE: To verify the relation between expectations and success of the process of election and...
INTRODUCTION: Keloids are benign tumors arising from abnormal healing of the skin, and there are several procedures available for their treatment. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of patients undergoing treatment of keloids after ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeries at our service center. METHOD: We conducted thorough, retrospective and...
INTRODUCTION: The use of conventional tympanometry is not sufficiently sensitive to detect all cases of middle ear changes, and this hinders accurate diagnosis. OBJECTIVE: To characterize acoustic immittance measures of infants from 0 to 3 months of age using multifrequency tympanometry in a prospective study. METHOD: 54 infants from 0 to 3 months of age were evaluated. The...
INTRODUCTION: The precocious diagnosis and the intervention in the deafness are of basic importance in the infantile development. The loss auditory and more prevalent than other joined riots to the birth. OBJECTIVE: Esteem the prevalence of auditory alterations in just-born in a hospital school. METHOD: Prospective transversal study that evaluated 226 justbeen born, been born in...