Sunday October 14  MBNA Conference Center, InterContinental Hotel

8:00 - 8:10     Welcome: Jacques Magnan, MD, President, Politzer Society
                           Gordon B. Hughes, MD, President, 26th Politzer Meeting
 

8:10 - 8:30     Introduction of Guest of Honor by Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, PhD
 

8:30 - 9:10     Guest of Honor Ugo Fisch, MD: “Life Experiences in Otology”
 

9:10 - 9:20     Discussion
Session Chairman: Peter C. Weber, MD
 

9:20 - 10:00   Guest Speaker Shuvo Roy, PhD, “Nanomedicine”
10:00 - 10:10 Discussion
 

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 

Session Chairman: Naoki Yanagihara, MD
 

10:30 - 11:10 Guest Speaker William H. Slattery III, MD: “Middle Ear Implantable Hearing Devices”
11:10 - 11:20 Discussion
 

11:20 - 12:00  (108) Guest Speaker Shingo Murakami, MD: “Acute Viral Facial Palsy: Diagnosis and Management”


12:00 - 12:10 Discussion
 

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch (Ballroom, 2nd floor InterContinental Hotel)

Hall A            
Session Chairman: Klaus Jahnke, MD and Chong Kim, MD

123 LATERALIZATION AND EAR CANALOBLITERATION: CLASSIFICATION AND NEW THERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVES
Arnaud DeVeze, Omar Bacha, Jean-Pierre Lavielle, Jacques Magnan
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France

124 CONTEMPORARY ROLE OF ENDOLYMPHATIC MASTOID SHUNT SURGERY IN THE ERA OF TRANSTYMPANIC PERFUSION STRATEGIES
Myles Pensak, Ravi Samy
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

125 THE VALUE OF VESTIBULAR NEUROTOMY IN THE COURSE OF BILATERAL MENIERE'S DISEASE
Jacques Magnan1, Arnaud DeVeze1, Stavros Mavroidaks2, Jean-Pierre Lavielle1
1Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France/2Department of Audiology-Neurootology, Athens, Greece

147 INSIDE-OUT CHOLESTEATOMA SURGERY: A RETROSPECTIVE LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF 586 PATIENTS OPERATED ON BETWEEN 1992 AND 2006
Rudolph Häusler, Thomas Roth
Hôpital Universitäire de Berne, Berne, Switzerland



Hall B
Session Chairman: Roberto Filipo, MD ad Chong Kim, MD
 

146 THE VALUE OF MRI AND ENG IN DIZZINESS AND VERTIGO MANAGEMENT
Mohamed Hamid, Marc Friedman, Diane Kish, Janet Riely
The Cleveland Hearing & Balance Center, Beachwood, OH, USA

133 A PERSONAL SIXTY YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL STATISTICAL REVIEW OF 14,502 CASES OPERATED ON FOR OTOSCLEROSIS
James Brown
Brown Clinic, Calgary, AB, Canada

134 THE EFFECT OF STAPEDIAL SURGERY IN THE BONE CONDUCTION
Francisco Antoli-Candela, Alejandro Harguindey
Instituto ORL Antoli Candela, Madrid, Spain

135 AN ANALYSIS OF THE AIR-BONE GAP CLOSURE OBTAINED BY A CRIMPING AND A NON-CRIMPING TITANIUM STAPES PROSTHESIS IN OTOSCLEROSIS
Rinze A. Tange, Wilko Grolman
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

136 BAHA - IMPLANT MOVEMENTS IN A 9.4 TESLA MAGNETIC FIELD
Michael H Fritsch, Ilka C Naumann
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

137 MULTICENTER STUDY OF MUSIC PERCEPTION WITH NUCLEUS COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
Jay Rubinstein1, Ward Drennan1, Jillian Crosson2
1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA/2Cochlear Americas, Denver, CO, USA

138 ROUND WINDOW AND COCHLEOSTOMY APPROACHES FOR ELECTRICAL-ACOUSTIC STIMULATION
Alec Fitzgerald O'Connor, Dan Jiang
Auditory Implant Centre, St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom

139 EXPECTATIONS AND CHOICE OF ELECTRODE FOR CI CANDIDATES WITH SIGNIFICANT LOW-FREQUENCY RESIDUAL HEARING
Bernard Fraysse1, Chris James1,2, Olivier Deguine1, Olivier Sterkers3, Didier Bouccara3, Alain Robier4
1Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France/2Cochlear France, Toulouse, France/3AP-HP Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France/4Hôpital Bretonneau, Tours, France

140 DIGISONIC® SP AUDITORY BRAINSTEM IMPLANT: EXPERIENCE IN NF2 PATIENTS
Franco Trabalzini1, Gregorio Babighian1, Renato Scienza2, Giacomo Pavesi2
1Dept. of Otosurgery, Padova, Italy/2Dept. of Neurosurgery, Padova, Italy

141 COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION IN MONDINI DEFORMITY
Sandra DeSaSouza, Dillon D'Souza, Natasha D'Souza
1DeSa'S Hospital, Mumbai, , India/2Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai,India/3Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, , India/4Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India

142 A 1-YEAR FOLLOW UP STUDY OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN DEAF CHILDREN AFTER COCHLEAR IMPLANT
Seung Ha Oh1, Min-Sup Shin2, Myung-Whan Suh1, Hyung-Mi Kim1, Young Ho Kim1, Jun-Ho Lee1, Sun O Chang1, Chong Sun Kim1
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea/2Department of Pediatric Psychology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

143 COCHLEAR IMPLANTS IN THE ADOLESCENT:CHANGING PATTERNS
Noel Cohen, Janet Green, William Shapiro, Susan Waltzman
NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

144 OTOLOGICS FULLY IMPLANTABLE HEARING DEVICE PHASE II PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Ben Balough2, Michael Hoffer2, Drew Horlbeck1
1Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA/2Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA/3Nemours Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

145 EARLY OBSERVATIONS IN THE CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AFTER COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION (CDACI) STUDY
John Niparko1, Laurie Eisenberg2, Donna Thal2, Alexandra Quittner3, Nae Yuh Wang1, Nancy Fink1 and the CDaCI Investigative Team
1The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA/2House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA/3University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Six Continents Room
Session Chairman: Hiroshi Moriyama, MD and Per Mřller, MD

109 GENETIC HEARING LOSS
Cor W. R. J. Cremers
University Medical Center St. Radboud
Nijmegen, Netherlands

110  GIVING MUTANT MERLIN A HAND: POTENTIAL MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMAS
Mark Packer, Long-Sheng Chang, Abraham Jacob, Tina Lee, D. Bradley Welling
The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA; Columbus Childrens Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

111 THE WALTZING GUINEA PIG, AN ANIMAL MODEL FOR CLINICAL VESTIBULAR DYSFUNCTION
Sachie Kawaguchi1, Mats Ulfendahl1, Mamoru Suzuki2, Malou Hultcrantz3
1Karolinska Institute, Center for Hearing and Communication Research, Stockholm, Sweden/2Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan/3Karolinska University Hospital, ENT clinic, Stockholm, Sweden

112 SDHB, SDHC, AND SDHD MUTATIONS  IN HEAD AND NECK PARAGANGLIOMAS
Franco Trabalzini1, Gregorio Babighian1, Francesca Schiavi2, Giuseppe Opocher2, Pietro Amistŕ3
1Dept. of Otosurgery, Padova, Italy/2Dept. of Endocrinology, Padova,Italy/3Dept. of Neuroradiology, Padova, Italy

113 SACCULOCOLLIC PATHWAY DYSFUNCTION REVEALED BY VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS IN MOUSE MODEL WITH SPONTANEOUS ENDOLYMPHATIC HYDROPS
Kianoush Sheykholeslami, Cliff Megerian, Quing Zheng
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

114 AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC DRILLING OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT WELL
Ravi Samy, Albert Bosse
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA

115 EVOLUTION IN THE TRAINING PARADIGM EMPLOYED IN RESIDENT PERFORMED MASTOIDECTOMY
Myles Pensak, Ravi Samy
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

116 ISCHEMIC HEARING LOSS AND ITS UNDERLYING MECHANISMS
Kiyofumi Gyo, Tadashi Yoshida, Kensuke Fujita, Shoichiro Takeda, Jun Hyodo
Ehime University, Toon, Japan

117 DISPLACEMENT PATTERN OF THE CUPULA UNDER SINUSOIDAL STIMULI
Koji Otsuka1, Mamoru Suzuki2, Yasuo Ogawa2, Taro Inagaki2
1Department of Otolaryngology, Kosei Chuo Hospital, Tokyo,Japan/2Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

118 VIBRATION-INDUCED NYSTAGMUS IN PATIENTS WITH UNILATERAL MENIERE'S DISEASE AND VESTIBULAR NEURITIS
Hong Ju Park, Hyang Ae Shin, Jung Eun Shin
Konkuk University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

119, DISEASE ASSOCIATED CD46 SPLICING VARIANTS AND PATHOLOGIC BONE REMODELLING IN OTOSCLEROSIS
Tamás Karosi1, Anita Szalmás2, József Kónya2, Péter Csomor2,László Z. Szabó3, István Sziklai1
1University of Debrecen, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Debrecen, Hungary/2University of Debrecen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Debrecen, Hungary/3National Health Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Budapest, Hungary.

120, ENDOLYMPHATIC AND PERILYMPHATIC SPACE IMAGING IN PATIENTS WITH INNER EAR DISEASES
Tsutomu Nakashima1, Masaaki Teranishi1, Makoto Sugiura1, Michihiko Sone1, Hideo Hayashi1, Shinji Naganawa2
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan/2Department of Radiology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

121AUDIOLOGIC CRITERIA AND LONG-TERM RESULTS OF HEARING PRESERVATION AFTER VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA REMOVAL
Bernard Pauw1, Eelco Kummer1, Marjan Wieringa1, Cees Avezaat2
1ORL Dept-Erasmus Univ Medical Center, Rotterdam,Netherlands/2Neurosurgery Dept-Erasmus Univ Medical Center,Rotterdam, Netherlands

122 CARTILAGE "SHIELD" GRAFTING IN REVISION CHRONIC EAR SURGERY
Aristides Sismanis, Efthymios Kyrodimos, Kelley Dodson
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA

123 LATERALIZATION AND EAR CANAL OBLITERATION: CLASSIFICATION AND NEW THERAPEUTIC PERSPECTIVES
Arnaud DeVeze, Omar Bacha, Jean-Pierre Lavielle, Jacques Magnan
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Nord,Marseille, France

124 CONTEMPORARY ROLE OF ENDOLYMPHATIC MASTOID SHUNT SURGERY IN THE ERA OF TRANSTYMPANIC PERFUSION STRATEGIES
Myles Pensak, Ravi Samy
University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

125 THE VALUE OF VESTIBULAR NEUROTOMY IN THE COURSE OF BILATERAL MENIERE'S DISEASE
Jacques Magnan1, Arnaud DeVeze1, Stavros Mavroidaks2, Jean-Pierre Lavielle1
1Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France/2Department of Audiology-Neurootology, Athens, Greece

126 ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC SURGERY FOR MENIERE'S DISEASE: LONG-TERM RESULTS AFTER PRIMARY AND REVISION SURGERY
Stephen Wetmore
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

127 PRE-SURGERY VESTIBULAR ABLATION WITH GENTAMICIN AND 'VESTIBULAR PREHAB' ENHANCE POSTOPERATIVE RECOVERY IN PONTINE-ANGLE SURGERY
Sven Lindberg1, Babar Kahlon2, Mikael Karlberg1, Peter Siesjö2, Mĺns Magnusson1
1Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden/ 2Dept of Neurosurgery, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

128 QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES IN VESTIBULAR SCHWANOMA PATIENTS
Per Mřller
Haukeland Sykehus, ENT Department, Bergen, Norway

129 BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO AFTER MASTOID SURGERY
Ja-Won Koo1, Su-Kyoung Park2, Sung Kwang Hong1, Chong Sun Kim1, Ji Soo Kim3
1Department of Otolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea/2Department of Otolaryngology, Hallym University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea/3Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

130 THE SCOTTISH BELL'S PALSY STUDY
Iain Swan1, Frank Sullivan2, Peter Donnan2, Fergus Daly2
1University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland/2University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

131 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PETROUS APEX CHOLESTEATOMA
Sun O Chang, Myung-Whan Suh, Hyung-Mi Kim, Young Ho Kim, Jun-Ho Lee, Seung Ha Oh, Chong Sun Kim
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

132 NOISE-INDUCED HEARING LOSS IN ROCK AND ROLL PERFORMING ARTISTS
Dan Siker, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin