[Profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss: a result of viral infections]. / Gleboki obustronny niedosluch odbiorczy--nastepstwo kolejnych infekcji wirusowych.

A patient is presented with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, as a result of viral infections. The extensive clinical diagnosis was carried out. The findings of multiple audiological and immunological tests helped to fix the proper treatment and the period of its application. In consequence, the hearing in the right ear showed a significant improvement, but the left ear wasn't recovering. The inflammatory process occurred much earlier in the left ear and caused the indivertible hearing loss.

[CMI multitest in assessment of cell-mediated immunity in patients with chronic tonsillitis]. / Multitest CMI w ocenie odpornosci komórkowej chorych na przewlekle zapalenie migdalków podniebiennych.

Cell-mediated immunity has been assessed in 20 patients with chronic tonsillitis with CNI multitest. The test was performed both prior to and after tonsillectomy. A reduced skin reactivity, especially after surgery, has been observed in patients as compared with a control group.

[N2O cryotherapy in treating allergic rhinitis]. / Krioterapia N2O w leczeniu alergicznych zapalen blony sluzowej nosa.

Chronic rhinitis is known since many years to be a difficult therapeutic problem. Also new methods of treatment did not bring satisfactory good results. In our clinic a cryosurgery was applied in patients with chronic rhinitis. Performed observations indicated that cryosurgery was more successful than other conventional methods, especially in early stage of disease.

[Chronic hereditary nephritis with hearing loss (Alport's syndrome)]. / Przewlekle dziedziczne zapalenie nerek z uposledzeniem sluchu (zespol Alporta).

Two generations of one family with Alport syndrome were studied. The observation proved that women do transmit the disease, but men have signs more developed. As symptoms of the disease were pathological changes of chronic interstitial haemorrhagic pyelonephritis associated with bilateral hearing loss of cochlear type. In patients with pronounced hearing impairment (in the spiral organ) the kidney pathology was not advanced and the course of the illness rather mild. We believe that patients with kidney pathology should have their hearing examined as routine proceeding because hearing impairment is frequently associated with kidney pathology as in Alport's syndrome and other diseases. This coincidence may help in diagnosis, choice of treatment and prognostic evaluation.