Background: This study is the first to have been assessing epistaxis cases in respect of the geographic and seasonal variations in 2 distinct cities 900 km apart in 2 different regions of Turkey, whereas most studies in the literature about this entity had evaluated patients in the same residential area. The purpose of this study was to compare seasonal and regional variations ...

Background: Masks may have negative impacts on health; thus, it is important to investigate mask-related symptoms and the effects of masks on mucociliary clearance. We conducted our investigation using 4 study groups to determine the longterm health effects of both surgical and respiratory masks.

Methods: We studied 139 people aged 18-65 years. Participa...

Background: The aim of the study was to determine which steroids effectively treat idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL).

Methods: Records of patients who were followed up for ISSNHL diagnosis between 2014 and 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. The efficacy of different steroids (systemic, intratympanic, and systemic+intratympanic) in th...

Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer who started his career as the front man of The Four Seasons. This pop group became one of the biggest pop acts of the 1960s. Valli is known for his unusually powerful lead falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, he developed otosclerosis. The hearing loss got so bad that Frankie could not hear himself...

Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the levels of health literacy amongst patients admitted to the ENT department of Eskisehir Osmangazi University in June 2018.

Methods: 200 patients (comprising 107 males and 93 females), selected at random, consented to the study. They were supplied with the Health Literacy Questionnaire, which was used to evaluat...

AIM: In preterm infants who have a tendency for hypoxia, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) support is one of the standard treatments being used today. Although newborns are prone to complications, too many complications have not been reported in literature due to CPAP in newborn period. In this study, complications in preterm infants have been reported who had nasal CP...

Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate the gustatory functions in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR).

Methods: The study population consisted of the control and the reflux groups. There were 50 patients in each group. Reflux symptom index and reflux symptom scoring system were used in the diagnosis of reflux group. These two groups wer...

Objective: Our aim in this study is to investigate, in patients who are advised to use CPAP, the rate of usage, differences between the patients who use the device and those who don’t; and the factors affecting the compliance rates.

Methodology: A telephone survey was applied to the patients who underwent polysomnography, between the years 2010 -2015 an...

Objective: Autologous serum skin testing is a practical test for basophil histamine release which is used in the diagnosis of chronic autoimmune urticaria. Although the exact autoimmune pathogenesis of allergic diseases of the upper respiratory tract remains a matter of debate, recent studies have reported positive results for autologous serum skin test in both allergic and non...

Objective: To compare the snare and coblation methods in terms of post-tonsillectomy morbidity for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.

Method: The study involved 49 cases. Twenty-one patients were operated on using the snare method, whilst the remaining 28 patients underwent coblation tonsillectomy. The amount of intraoperative bleeding was recorded...

Objective: This magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study aimed to explored associations between neutral head posture, size, and shape of the pharyngeal airway and the severity of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

Methods: A retrospective methodology was used to study 90 male patients who had already undergone overnight polysomnography and cervical MRI. 60 c...

Objective: In earlier studies, the resonant frequency (RF) of the middle ear has been investigated in a number of different animals. However, no study has so far specifically addressed the measurement of RF in rats. With this in mind, in our study, multifrequency tympanometry (MFT) was performed on rats and RF value measurements were taken. The aim was to ascertain the normal v...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze and assess the frequency of anatomical variants of the paranasal sinuses as detected by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scanning.

Methods: 225 patients (122 males, 103 females) in total, with a median age of 28 (range: 15-77) years were included in this retrospective study. Paranasal computed ...

Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with diffusion-weighted images in patients with cholesteatoma.

Methods: We compared the preoperative MRI findings and intraoperative microscopic examination findings in 54 patients who were operated on due to a pre-diagnosis of chronic otitis media with cho...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between the size of the vertebral artery and that of the transverse foramina at the C1 to C6 vertebral level in patients suffering from vertigo thought to be related to vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI).

Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, two groups were compared in te...