The relationship between dentofacial morphology and respiration has been debated and investigated from various approaches. The aim of this study was to verify the skeletal and dental relationship of mouth and nose breathing children. Thirty-five children, 7 to 10 years of age, were submitted to orthodontic and otorhinolaryngologic evaluations and were separated into 2 groups: 15 nose breathers ...

Anesthetic management of patients with mediastinal masses remains challenging as acute cardiorespiratory decompensation may follow induction of anesthesia. We describe a 57 year old lady with massive retrosternal goiter and severe intrathoracic tracheal compression who had a total thyroidectomy. Comprehensive contingency plans were an essential prerequisite for successful management of difficul...

Jacobsen syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by partial deletion of the long arm of chromosome 11. Less than 300 cases have been reported, with some being diagnosed as late as the 4 decade of life. Clinical features include growth and psychomotor delay, characteristic facial anomalies involving the eyes, nose, mouth and ears, skull deformities, abnormal platelet function, congenital heart def...

Background and Objectives Preoperative assessment is one of the most important fields in surgery anesthesia as it can reduce morbidity mortality from detect abnormal findings not clinically observed through preoperative examination. However, excessive non-vital routine tests have been criticized. The aim study to investigate current use elective evaluations using otorhinolaryngologic covering p...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this presentation is to show that the sublabial transseptal transsphenoidal approach to pituitary adenomas is the least invasive anatomic route with the lowest postoperative complication rates. PATIENTS AND METHOD This study was based on a retrospective analysis of 276 patients with a diagnosis of pituitary adenoma who were surgically treated via the sublabial transspheno...

This study aimed to evaluate sinonasal findings and the relationship between aminoglycoside (AG) exposure hearing loss in paediatric patients with cystic fibrosis (pwCF). We also investigate genetic predisposition ototoxicity by screening for pathogenic variant m.1555A>G. PwCF who underwent otorhinolaryngologic audiological examinations were retrospectively included from CF database of our tert...

BACKGROUND Chronic sinusitis (CRS) is a common otorhinolaryngologic disease that is frequently encountered in everyday practice, but there is a lack of precise data regarding the prevalence of CRS in developing countries. We performed a national investigation in China to determine the prevalence and associated factors of CRS. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional investigation in 2012. A str...

Monitored anesthesia care (MAC) is an anesthesia technique combining local anesthesia with parenteral drugs for sedation and analgesia. The use of MAC is increasing for a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in and outside of the operating room due to the rapid postoperative recovery with the use of relatively small amounts of sedatives and analgesics compared to general anesthesia....

month history of intermittent epistaxis. In addition, she reported a sensation of fullness and progressive hearing loss in her left ear over the previous two weeks. Our differential diagnosis for these unexplained symptoms of the upper airway focused on inflammatory diseases or a neoplasm involving the sinonasal tract and nasopharynx. Nasal endoscopy showed friable erythematous and granulomatou...