Tuesday October 16  MBNA Conference Center, InterContinental Hotel

8:00 - 8:20     Introduction of Guest of Honor by Michael E. Glasscock III, MD
8:20 - 9:00     Guest of Honor William F. House, MD: “Life Experiences in Otology”
9:00 - 9:10     Discussion
 

9:10 - 9:20     Introduction of Guest of Honor by Session Chairman Keiko Hirose, MD
9:20 - 10:00   Guest of Honor Robert V. Shannon, PhD: “Auditory Brain Stem Implants”
10:00 - 10:10 Discussion
 

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
 

10:30 - 11:10 Guest Speaker Dennis S. Poe, MD: “Endoscopic Surgery of the Ear and Eustachian Tube”
11:10 - 11:20 Discussion
 

11:20 - 12:00 Guest Speaker Thomas Lenarz, MD: “Robotic Ear Surgery”
12:00 - 12:10 Discussion
 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Hall A: Mirko Tos, MD, Hiroshi Moriyama, MD; O. Nuri Özgirgin, MD; Mirko Tos, MD  
 

216  THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF IDIOPATHIC SUDDEN SENSORY HEARING LOSS WITH BPPV: PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF BPPV
Jae Ho Ban, No Hee Lee
Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Korea

217 CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF BILATERAL SIMULTANEOUS FACIAL NERVE PALSY CASES
Young Ho Kim1, Jae Ho Ban2, Chang Hyun Cho3, Joong Ho Ahn4, Jong Woo Chung4
1Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Seoul National University, Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Korea/2Department of Otolaryngology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea/3Department of  Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University, Incheon, Korea/4Department of Otolaryngology, Asan Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea

218 CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF THE VEMP TEST
Sanjay Bhansali, Toni Landau
Ear Consultants of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, USA

219 CERVICAL SPECIFIC PROTOCOL AND RESULTS FOR 100 MENIERE'S PATIENTS
Michael Burcon
Prosper Meniere Society, Little Rock, AR, USA

220 ENDOLYMPHATIC HYDROPS TREATED BY GENTAMICIN INFUSION: A HUMAN TEMPORAL BONE STUDY
Salvatore Cavaliere, Jaime Benitez
Michigan Ear, Head & Neck Clinic, Rochester, MI, USA

221 INTRATYMPANIC DEXAMETHASONE PERFUSION FOR THE TREATMENT OF MENIERE'S DISEASE
Kelley Dodson, Aristides Sismanis, Efthymios Kyrodimos
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA

223 VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS IN PATIENTS WITH BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO INVOLVING EACH SEMICIRCULAR CANAL
Seok Min Hong, Jae Yong Byun, Seung Geun Yeo, Moon Suh Park, Chang Il Cha
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine,Kyunghee Universitry, Seoul, South Korea

224 AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE RELATED WITH PROGRESSIVE HEARING LOSS: A CASE REPORT
Irena Duma-Vasovska, Marina Davcheva-Chakar, Elena Bogeska, Valentina Ivanovska
ENT Clinic, Clinical Center, Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

225 A CASE OF ATYPICAL SUPERIOR SEMICIRCULAR CANAL DEHISCENCE SYNDROME
Ja-Won Koo1, Sung Kwang Hong1, Chong Sun Kim1, Ji Soo Kim2
1Department of Otolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea/2Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

227 EVALUATION OF HEARING PRESERVATION AFTER ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC SURGERY FOR MENIERE’S DISEASE
Jacob McAfee1, Chris Savage2, Robert Keith2, Myles Pensak2, Daniel Choo2, Ravi Samy2
1Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA/2University of Cincinnati / Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA

228 HIGH-DEFINITION IMAGING OF INNER EAR ANATOMY WITH HIGH-MR MAGNET STRENGTH
Ilka C Naumann1, Michael H Fritsch1, Kristine M Mosier2
1Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA/2Department of Radiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

229 INTRATYMPANIC STEROID APPLICATION FOR IDIOPATHIC SUDDEN SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS AS A SALVAGE TREATMENT
Masaaki Teranishi, Tadao Yoshida, Hideo Hayashi, Tomoyuki Iwata, Naomi Katayama, Seiichi Nakata, Tsutomu Nakashima
Department of Otorhinolarngology, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

230 FLUCTUATING MIXED TYPE HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH SAPHO SYNDROME
Kumiko Yukawa1, Sachie Kawaguchi1, Yukari Okubo2, Mamoru Suzuki1
1Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan/2Department of Dermatology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

231 MEDICAL TREATMENT OF OTOSCLEROSIS: RATIONALE FOR USE OF BISPHOSPHONATES
Kenneth Brookler
Neurotologic Associates, P.C., New York, NY, USA

232 PLATINOPLASTY IN OTOSCLEROSIS
Todor Karchev1, Stefan Stoyanov2
1. ENT – Chair, MU - Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria/2. Medical Institute, Ministry of Interior, Sofia, Bulgaria

233 STAPEDOTOMIES. LONG TERM RESULTS
Jorge Merán1, Elisabeth Masgoret2, Francisco Avilés3, Ester Domènech3, Enric Figuerola3, Maria Martínez3
1Hospital Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain/2Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular MaternoInfantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain/3Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain

234 RESULTS OF 1000 STAPES OPERATIONS IN CASES OF OTOSCLEROSIS.
R.A. Tange
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

255 IPSI- AND CONTRA-LATERAL VEMP RESPONSES IN CLINICAL NEUROTOLOGY
Mohamed Hamid
The Cleveland Hearing & Balance Center, Beachwood, OH, USA

258 USE OF PSEUDOCOLOR IN OTOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS
Moon-Suh Park, Jae-Yong Byun, Kee-Hwan Kwon, Seung-Geun Yeo, Chang-Il Cha
Dept. of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Hall B
Session Chairmen:
Klaus Jahnke, MD, Chong Kim, MD; Jacques Magnan, MD; Gordon Hughes, MD

237 BONE ANCHORED HEARING AIDS: OPERATIVE & POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
Cristina Baldassari, Aristides Sismanis, Kelley Dodson
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Otolaryngology, Richmond, VA, USA

238 THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN MIDDLE EAR ANATOMY FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION
Dragoslava Djeric
Institute of ORL and MFS, Belgrade, Serbia

239 OUTCOMES OF CLARION IMPLANTATION IN INDIA
Dillon Dsouza1, Sandra DeSaSouza2, Natasha Dsouza3
1DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India/2DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India/3DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India

240 THE EFFECT OF DEPTH OF INSERTION OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT ELECTRODES ON SPEECH UNDERSTANDING
Dillon Dsouza1, Sandra DeSaSouza2, Natasha Dsouza31DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India/2DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India/3DeSa’S Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India

241MIDDLE EAR IMPLANT VERSUS BAHA IN CONDUCTIVE AND MIXED HEARING LOSS
Bernard Fraysse, Gaetan Iversenc, Marie-Noel Calmels, Olivier Deguine
Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France

242 VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE FOR PATIENTS WITH SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS OF DIFFERENT TYPES
Sziklai István
University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

243 THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCESS TO THE ROUND WINDOW VIA A POSTERIOR TYMPANOTOMY: A PRACTICAL CLASSIFICATION
Dan Jiang, Alec Fitzgerald O'Connor
Auditory Implant Centre, St. Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom

244 COCHLEAR IMPLANTS IN OBLITERATED OR OSSIFIED COCHLEAS
Elisabeth Masgoret1, Jorge Merán2, Ángel Osorio1, José Maria Cuyás1, Ángel Ramos1
1Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular MaternoInfantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain/2Hospital Universitario Joan XXIII,Tarragona, Spain

245 TREATMENT OF MIXED HEARING LOSS USING THE ACTIVE MIDDLE EAR IMPLANT VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE
Robert Mlynski, Joachim Mueller, Rudolf Hagen
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

246 FINE STRUCTURE PROCESSING IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTS
Peter Nopp1, Stefan Brill2, Clemens Zierhofer3, Peter Schleich1, Alexander Moeltner1, Ernst Aschbacher1
1MED-EL Medical Electronics GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria/2University ENT-Clinic Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany/3Christian Doppler Laboratory for Active Implantable Systems, Innsbruck, Austria

247 EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE OF CI USERS USING MIDDLE AND LATE LATENCY RESPONSES
Murat Kurnaz, Bulent Satar, Serdar Karahatay, Hakan Birkent, Abdullah Durmaz, Sertac Yetiser
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey

248 RESULTS WITH A COMBINED DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC-ACOUSTIC STIMULATION
Marcus Schmidt1, Marek Polak1, Artur Lorens2, Katrien Vermeire3, Sue McDonald4, Silke Helbig5
1MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria/2Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland/3Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium/4Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom/5University ENT Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

249 NOVEL STIMULATION OF THE COCHLEA USING VIBRATORY EXCITATION VIA THE ROUND WINDOW
Marcus Schmidt, Jane M. Opie, Peter Lampacher, Geoffrey R. Ball
Vibrant MED-EL Hearing Technology GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria

250 FULL PANORAMA ECAP RECORDINGS IN PULSARCI100 COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS
Hansjoerg Schoesser1, Peter Nopp1, Ilona Anderson1, Martina Deibl1, Philipp Spitzer1, Alexander Moeltner1, Wilma Harnisch2, Stefan Brill2, Joachim Mueller2
1MED-EL Medical Electronics GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria/2University ENT-Clinic Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

251 INCIDENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS WITH BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AIDS
Nilesh Shah, Perminder Parmar, Christopher Linstrom
Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA

252 MIGRATION OF THE BALL ELECTRODE AFTER COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION.
R.A. Tange, W. Grolman, B. Carelsen
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

253 PROSPECTIVE BENEFITS OF COMPLETE COCHLEAR COVERAGE
Melissa Waller
MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria

236 THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT ELECTRODE; HISTORY AND FUTURE
Katya Assenova1, Stefan Stoyanov2, Ventzislav Tzvetkov3, Todor Karchev1
1Medical University - Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria/2Ministry of Interior -Medical Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria/3Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria

259 EXPERIMENTAL IN-THE-EAR-CANAL MICROPHONES IMPROVE SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD IN BILATERAL CI-USERS
Robert Mylnski, Joachim Mueller, Rudolph Hagen
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, University of Wuerzburg Germany

 

Six Continents Room
Session Chairmen: Alec Fitzgerald O'Connor, MD, Roberto Filipo, MD; Francisco Antoli-Candela, MD; Per Møller, MD                
 

200 MOLECULAR RESPONSES IN RAT SPIRAL GANGLION CELLS FOLLOWING CISPLATIN CHALLENGE
Seong-Ki Ahn1,2, O'Neil W Guthrie3, Carey D Balaban1
1Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA/2Department of Otolaryngology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea/3Department of Biology, Durham, NC, USA

201 INCREASED FREQUENCIES OF COCHLIN-SPECIFIC T CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS
Moo Jin Baek1, Kyung Wook Heo1, Gordon B. Hughes2, Vincent K. Tuohy3
1Department of Otolaryngology, Inje University, Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea/2 Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA/3Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

202 THE CaV3.1 T-TYPE Ca++ CHANNEL CONTRIBUTES TO VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT CALCIUM CURRENTS IN RAT OUTER HAIR CELLS
Akira Inagaki1, Shinya Ugawa2, Hisao Yamamura3, Shingo Murakami1, Shoichi Shimada2
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan/2Department of Molecular Morphology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan/3Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan

203 ROLE OF VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS TO ELEVATE THE SENSITIVITY OF OBJECTIVE TESTS IN EARLY MENIERE'S DISEASE
Sung Kwang Hong1, Ji Soo Kim2, Chong Sun Kim1, Ja-Won Koo1
1Department of Otolaryngology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea/2Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea

204 THE SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF TEMPORAL ENCEPHALOCELE WITH SEVERE MIDDLE EAR INFECTION
Shigehisa Hashimoto, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Yutaka Yamamoto, Sugata Takahashi
Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, Niigata, Japan

205 THE ANATOMY OF THE SINUS TYMPANI
James J. Holt
Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI, USA

206 TEOAES CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH HISTORY OF OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION
Valentina Ivanovska, Marina Davcheva-Chakar, Elena Bogeska, Irena Duma-Vasovska
ENT Clinic, Clinical Center, Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

207 CORRELATION BETWEEN OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION AND ALLERGY RHINITISOUR EXPERIENCE
Elena Bogeska, Marina Davcheva-Chakar, Valentina Ivanovska, Irena Duma-Vasovska
ENT Clinic, Clinical Center, Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia

208 ANALYSIS OF AXIAL TEMPORAL BONE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS FOR PERFORMING A SAFE POSTERIOR TYMPANOTOMY
Chang Woo Kim, So-Jung Oh, Chang-Hoon Kim, Young-Soo Rho
Hallym University, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Seoul, Korea

209 CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BILATERAL CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA
See-Ok Shin, Young-Seok Choi
Chungbuk National University Hospital, Chungbuk, South Korea

210 DELAYED FACIAL NERVE PALSY AFTER ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC SURGERY
Takefumi Kamakura1, Tadashi Kitahara2, Arata Horii2, Takeshi Kubo2, Hiroshi Kajikawa1, Naoki Matsushiro1, Takahiro Kitamura1, Shin-ichi Okumura1
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Sakai, Japan/2Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University, School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

212 A CASE OF THE TEMPORAL BONE CHONDROBLASTOMA PRESENTING WITH HEARING LOSS
Taro Inagaki, Mamoru Suzuki, Taro Yamaguchi, Eriko Shinada, Minoru Endo, Hiroyuki Ito
Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

213 MANAGEMENT OF HIGH JUGULAR BULB: TRANSVENOUS STENT-SUPPORTED EMBOLIZATION TECHNIQUE
Eui-Kyung Goh1, Kyong-Myong Chon1, Bit-Na Yoon1, Soo-Keun Kong1, Tae-Hong Lee2
1Department of Otolaryngology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea/2Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea

214 CI ELECTRODE DESIGNED FOR PASSIVE DIFFUSION OF A SUBSTANCE INTO THE INNER EAR
Claude Jolly1, Marcus Schmidt1, Wolf-Dieter Baumgartner2, Jan Kiefer3
1MED-EL Medical Electronics, Innsbruck, Austria/2University Clinic Vienna, Vienna, Austria/3ENT Department, University Clinic Munich, Munich, Germany

215 TEAMWORK IN ACOUSTIC NEUROMA MANAGEMENT
Franco Trabalzini1, Gregorio Babighian1, Renato Scienza2, Giacomo Pavesi2
1Dept. of Otosurgery, Padova, Italy/2Dept. of Neurosurgery, Padova, Italy

235 CONGENITAL AURICULAR FISTULA DELINEATING AN EAR LOBULE
Kyung Wook Heo, Moo Jin Baek
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inje University School of Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea

254 INTRANASAL AEROSOLIZED SURFACTANT TREATMENT OF ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA
Sujana Chandrasekhar, Alan Mautone
1Director, New York Otology Clinical Assoc Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States/2UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, United States

256 CHOLESTEATOMAS BEHIND AN INTACT TYMPANIC MEMBRANE: ARE THERE CLINICAL CLUES FOR THE ACQUIRED INCLUSION THEORY?
Chang Woo Kim, So-Jung Oh, Jeong Min Kang, Young-Soo Rho
Hallym University, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Seoul, Korea

257COMPARISON OF MIDDLE EAR VOLUME BY CT AND TYMPANOMETRY: HOW MUCH CAN TYMPANOMETRY PREDICT THE VOLUME OF  MIDDLE EAR
Hong Ju Park, Hyang Ae Shin, Jung Eun Shin
Konkuk University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

260 ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING POSTOPERATIVE HEARING RESULTS IN TYMPANOPLASTY
Yutaka Yamamoto, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Yuka Morita, Mika Nemoto, Yuko Kuwabara, Shigehisa Hashimoto, Sugata Takahashi
Department of Otolaryngology, Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, Niigata, Japan

261 SURGICAL SIMULATION USING 3-D TEMPORAL BONE MODEL FOR DISEASES WITH DIFFERENT PATHOLOGY
Mamoru Suzuki, Akira Hagiwara, Sachie Kawaguchi, Taro Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Hasegawa, Taro Inagaki
Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

262 THE INFLUENCE OF THE LOCATION OF ACOUSTIC NEUROMA IN THE INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL
Kuniyuki Takahashi, Yutaka Yamamoto, Shigehisa Hashimoto, Sugata Takahashi
Department of Otolaryngology, Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, Niigata, Japan

263 TYMPANOPLASTY WITH AUTOGENOUS INCUS AND THE AMSTERDAM HEARING EVALUATION PLOTS
R.A. Tange
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands