Santiago Santa Cruz Ruiz

Publications (4)0 Total impact

• Article: [Facial paralysis of infectious origin in patients receiving cochlear implants].

  Santiago Santa Cruz Ruiz, Fernando Sánchez González, Agustín Del Cañizo Alvarez, Angel Batuecas Caletrío, Paloma Santa Cruz Ruiz, Pablo Santos Gorjón
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  ABSTRACT: Peripheral facial paralysis during cochlear implant surgery appears in 0.43 % of adults and 0.39 % of children. Peripheral facial paralysis secondary to acute otitis media is very rare in adults, while the incidence in children remains between 0.19 % and 0.45 %. We present 3 cases of patients who underwent cochlear implant surgery at our department, and who presented peripheral facial paralysis secondary to acute otitis media. The procedure is similar to facial paralysis secondary to acute otitis media in children. Treatment consists of parenteral antibiotic and corticosteroid treatment. Prognosis is favourable, with a total recovery of facial function in 1 or more months.
  Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española 07/2008; 59(6):288-91.
• Article: [Aorto-oesophageal fistula in patient with Montgomery salivary bypass tube].

  Pedro Blanco Pérez, Angel Batuecas Caletrío, Angel Muñoz Herrera, Santiago Santa Cruz Ruiz
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  ABSTRACT: Aorto-oesophageal fistula is a well-reported pathology with several known causes. The co-existence of this pathology associated with the use of a Montgomery salivary bypass tube (MSBT) is exceptional and only one case is described in the literature. We present here a case report about an 81-year-old patient with an MSBT who died because of a massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by an aorto-oesophageal fistula at the site of the MSBT. The literature on this pathology will also be reviewed.
  Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española 02/2008; 59(1):39-40.
• Article: [Phobic orthostatic insecurity].

  Luis D Beltrán-Mateos, Santiago Santa Cruz-Ruiz, Enrique Coscarón-Bernabé, Juan Solana-Sorribas, María Gil-Melcón, Angel Batuecas-Caletrío
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  ABSTRACT: The authors attempt to expand knowledge about a subjective balance disorder they have called phobic orthostatic insecurity, a condition representing the second cause of medical visits (22.3 %) to their ENT and neuro-otology clinic, and attempt to identify relationships with similar conditions described in psychiatry (agoraphobia, somatoform vertigo, and space-phobia) and in neurology (phobic postural vertigo). They also propose a simple diagnostic method and present their therapies and results. A total of 151 patients with an indefinite symptomatology of "dizziness" "vertigo" or "insecurity" were evaluated (from 1999 to 2005) by means of a full medical history and an appropriate neurological examination, pharmacological treatments with anxiolytics-antidepressives, a measurement of the degree of depression with the Beck test (a kind of psychiatric benchmark) and with a specific standardized test. Three symptoms and one exploratory condition, among others, were found in all 151 patients studied; these constitute the four bases for a positive diagnosis. This is confirmed if the treatment achieves total remission (this occurred in 69.53 % of all patients) or a sub-total remission (24.49 %), according to valuation scale for insecurity in all situations. The statistical analysis showed a symptomatic concordance within the group analyzed, a syndromic equivalence between patients and satisfactory results with the antidepressive treatments (94 %), thus confirming the diagnostic and aetiopathogenic hypotheses for the disorder and, later, providing a logical method for diagnosis. The authors propose to assimilate this diagnostic protocol (and therapeutic when no specialist psychotherapy teams are available) to most of the psychogenic insecurity syndromes described.
  Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española 12/2007; 58(9):393-400.
• Article: [PANDAS Syndrome: a new tonsillectomy indication?].

  Angel Batuecas Caletrío, Fernando Sánchez González, Santiago Santa Cruz Ruiz, Pablo Santos Gorjón, Pedro Blanco Pérez
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  ABSTRACT: PANDAS Syndrome (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcus) is a rare disease described in 1998. In this disease, there is a relationship between group A beta haemolytic streptococcal tonsil infections and the exacerbation of neuropsychiatric disorders. A case report of a 9-year-old child with PANDAS syndrome is presented. This child has had no further symptoms after tonsillectomy. The understanding about PANDAS syndrome and tonsillectomy is reviewed.
  Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española 59(7):362-3.