Surgical labyrinthectomy in the treatment of unilateral Meniere disease: a Belgian retrospective study.

Purpose: Meniere's disease (MD) is a disabling condition with symptoms, such as hearing loss, dizziness, and tinnitus. Surgery is the last resort option for managing MD when other treatments are not effective. Surgical labyrinthectomy (SL) is less commonly performed than vestibular neurectomy or chemical labyrinthectomy.

Multidisciplinary Management of Chronic Tinnitus in Audiophonology Centre: Survey of Psychiatric Comorbidities and Psychotropic Medications Use Over 10 Years of Activity.

Background: The multidisciplinary management of disabling chronic tinnitus in the audiophonology centre demonstrates its relevance. The detection and treatment of overlapping psychiatric pathologies is a crucial issue in the work of liaison psychiatry.

Subjects And Methods: A 10-year retrospective review of the activities of a university audiophonology centre with 166 patients who consulted for disabling chronic tinnitus and who underwent a Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview.

Cochlear Implants and Psychiatric Assessments: a Norrie Disease Case Report.

Background: It is important to perform psychiatric assessments of adult patients who are candidates for cochlear implants both to screen them for psychiatric disorders and to assess their understanding and compliance with the procedure. Deafness is a factor of difficulty for conducting in-depth psychiatric interviews, but concomitant blindness may make it impossible.

Subjects And Method: After a description of Norrie disease, a rare disease in which blindness and deafness may occur together, we propose a case report of a patient suffering from the disease and who consulted in view of a cochlear implant.

Our auditory results using the Vibrant Soundbridge on the long process of the incus: 20 years of data.

Objective: After 20 years of experience with different types of middle ear implants, we analyzed our database about the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) to know the rate of complications, the effect on the residual hearing and the audiometric gain in our center.

Method: The study was retrospective and included all VSB implants bound to the long process of the incus in our tertiary medical center between january 1999 and february 2015. We observed the effect of surgery on residual hearing by comparing bone and air conduction thresholds before and after implantation.

Pulsatile tinnitus associated with dehiscent internal carotid artery: An irremediable condition?

Dehiscent internal carotid artery (ICA) in the middle ear is a rare condition, with conservative treatment primarily recommended. We report the case of a 63-year-old patient referred to the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) ward for unbearable pulsatile tinnitus. Otoscopy revealed a normal right tympanic membrane, with pulsatile tinnitus but without hearing impairment.

Tinnitus and psychiatric comorbidities in liaison psychiatry analysis of three years in an audiophonology centre.

Introduction: Patients who are suffering from tinnitus are rarely directly referred to an audiophonology centre. Often, they have tried several medications and met with several doctors. Sometimes, they are also referred too quickly to a psychiatrist without a complete ENT assessment.

Unexplained syncopes: what place is there for the liaison psychiatry? Analysis of the first year of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Unexplained Faintness and Syncopes.

Introduction: The diagnostic process of syncopes remains an important and complex issue. In spite of everything, it is estimated that 20 to 30% of syncopes remain unexplained. The diagnosis of psychogenic syncope is estimated at 5.

Short- and long-lasting tinnitus relief induced by transcranial direct current stimulation.

A significant proportion of the population suffers from tinnitus, a bothersome auditory phantom perception that can severely alter the quality of life. Numerous experimental studies suggests that a maladaptive plasticity of the auditory and limbic cortical areas may underlie tinnitus. Accordingly, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been repeatedly used with success to reduce tinnitus intensity.