Radiofrequency energy has been reported to be effective to reduce nasal obstruction because of inferior turbinate hypertrophy. A total of 158 patients who had undergone such surgery are reported. Three to 30 months postoperatively 85% of the patients reported a marked decrease in nasal obstruction. This was irrespective of a short-term or a long-term follow-up, and was applicable to patients th...

Bovine natural killer (NK) cells were originally defined by the NK activation receptor CD335 [natural killer cell p46-related protein (NKp46)], but following the discovery of NKp46 expression on human T-cells, the definition of conventional bovine NK cells was modified to CD335+CD3- cells. Recently, a bovine T-cell population co-expressing CD335 was identified and these non-conventional T-cells...

Introduction Middle nasal turbinate (concha) is one of three or four lateralto-medial extroflexions of the lateral nasal wall: they are the inferior turbinate, whose bony skeleton is an independent bone, and middle, superior and sometime supreme turbinates, whose bony structures are part of the ethmoid bone. Embryogenesis of the last three turbinates is a process induced by active intramural pn...

The treatment of deformities of the nasal septum and the hypertrophy of the turbinates is necessary because in many of these cases the deformity is of exclusive respiratory cause, in which case the patient will be submitted to maxillary impaction to correct this vertical skeletal growth pattern. When impacting the maxilla, it is a fact that the nasal cavity will be diminished, because when the ...

THE following is ajsummary of the literature on this subject. Wall and Shure (Los Angeles) 1952, treated five cases of polypi by subjnucous injection of the turbinates. The turbinates shrank up and made removal of the polypi easier. Sidi and Tardiff in Paris, 1955, injected the anterior third of the inferior turbinates and also the septum. W'alter Owen, 1956, injected Hydrocortisone into the su...

Nasal turbinates or swabs were collected from wild ducks, geese, owls, sparrows, swallows, and starlings and from sentinel ducks placed next to turkey farms experiencing avian pneumovirus (APV) infections and were analyzed for APV genome and infectious particles. APV RNA was detected in samples examined from geese, sparrows, and starlings. APV RNA and antibodies were also detected in two differ...

immunohistochemistry.Human turbinates were obtained after turbinectomy from 6 patients with nasal obstruction refractory to medical therapy. Total RNA was isolated from human nasal mucosa, and CysLT2 receptor mRNA was detected in these tissues by using reverse transcriptase-PCR analysis. To identify the cells expressing CysLT2 receptor protein, double immunostaining was performed using anti-Cys...

Brachycephalic airway syndrome (BAS) is a group of abnormalities that result in upper airway obstruction. Primary malformations include stenotic nares, elongated soft palate, and hypoplastic trachea, which cause an increase in negative pressure within the upper airways that can eventually lead to secondary abnormalities such as everted laryngeal saccules, everted tonsils, and laryngeal and trac...