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Ear Clinical Aspects of Cochleovestibular Disorders
Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery
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5 sections · 55 slides
Overview
- What this topic teaches
Toxic Damage
When drugs and poisons reach the inner ear
- What ototoxicity means
- How toxic damage shows up
- Aminoglycoside antibiotics: why they hurt the ear
- Aminoglycosides: which drug attacks what
- Aminoglycosides: treatment and outlook
- Chemotherapy drugs (cytostatics) and the ear
- Two more chemical causes of inner-ear damage
- Occupational (workplace) ototoxins
Inflammatory Lesions
Infections that inflame the hearing and balance organ
- Herpes zoster oticus (Ramsay Hunt syndrome): what it is
- Ramsay Hunt: the clinical picture
- Ramsay Hunt: workup and treatment
- Other viral infections
- Serous labyrinthitis
- Immune (autoimmune) disease of the inner ear
Vestibular Disorders
Diseases of the balance apparatus
- Meniere disease: the classic triad
- Where a tinnitus comes from (classification)
- Meniere: definite vs probable disease
- Meniere: what an attack feels like
- Meniere: the mechanism (endolymphatic hydrops)
- Meniere: why the attack then happens (and recovers)
- Meniere: treatment DURING an attack
- Meniere: between attacks and severe cases
- Acute unilateral vestibular deficit
- Acute vestibular deficit: treatment and course
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- BPPV: diagnosis and treatment
- Central vestibular disorders: the RED FLAGS
- What causes central vestibular disorders
- Bilateral vestibular loss
- Other peripheral causes: neck and whiplash
- Motion sickness, perilymph fistula and Tullio
- Vestibular migraine
- Vestibular paroxysmia and SCDS
- PPPD: functional chronic dizziness
Sensorineural Hearing Disorders
When the cochlea or its nerve fails
- Sudden SNHL (SSHL): the definition
- SSHL: clinical picture and possible causes
- Levels at which hearing can fail
- SSHL: how to investigate
- SSHL: treatment
- SSHL: outlook, plus chronic progressive loss
- Presbyacusis: age-related hearing loss
- Presbyacusis: why it happens
- Presbyacusis: the four structural types
- Presbyacusis: diagnosis, pitfalls and care
- Numbers worth remembering
- Three take-home ideas
- Why does hearing loss from ototoxins begin with the HIGH tones?
- 20-minute spinning attacks with fluctuating one-sided hearing loss, tinnitus and fullness. Diagnosis and mechanism?
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery