A three-generation family with Saethre-Chotzen syndrome and an isolated case are presented. The proband presented with conductive hearing loss. His mother and grandmother showed minor features of the syndrome including conductive hearing loss. Symptoms of the craniosynostosis syndromes can include stapes ankylosis, a fixed ossicular chain in a too small epitympanum, and small or even absent mas...

To the Editor We read the case report by Baha et al. (1) in the latest issue of Internal Medicine with great interest. In this case report, a patient with massive pulmonary embolism (PE) confirmed by thorax computed tomography (CT) angiography was successfully treated with thrombolytic therapy. Massive PE can lead to cardiac arrest (CA) in 41% of patients, and the mortality rate was reported to...

Image guidance in otologic surgery has been thwarted by the need for a non-invasive fiducial system with target registration error (TRE) at the inner ear below 1.5mm. We previously presented a fiducial frame for this purpose that attaches to the upper dentition via patient-specific bite blocks and demonstrated a TRE of 0.73mm (±0.23mm) on cadaveric skulls. In that study, TRE measurement depende...

Aim of this report is to present a new surgical technique for the BAHA system implant and to discuss the operational techniques and complications related to this type of surgery. The common technique for the positioning of the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA, Cochlear Limited, Englewood, CO, USA) titanium implant into the temporal bone is based on the use of either a free or a pedunculated skin...

Flourescent antibody test (FAT) was applied to determine the cross-reactivities of monoclonal (mAb), polyclonal (pAb) antibodies to Neospora, Toxoplasma and Cryptosporidium and antisera from cattle naturally infected with Neospora canium against antigens from a number of sources. Both mAb and pAb to Neospora reacted strongly (FAT titre up to 2560) with the homologous antigens and demonstrated w...

Baha Abdalhamid, MD, PhD; Peter C. Iwen, Michael R. Wiley, Catherine B. Pratt, MS; Steven H. Hinrichs, MD

INTRODUCTION Cranial orthosis is a commonly utilized treatment modality for moderate to severe deformational plagiocephaly that may also be used to assist in cranial vault molding following endoscopic craniosynostosis repair. Custom-fit helmets are typically worn for 23 hours a day for a treatment duration of several months. Many children with plagiocephaly or craniosynostosis also suffer from ...

Early events of charge separation in reaction centers (RCs) of bacterial photosynthesis are modeled by kinetic equations with time-dependent rate constants. An illustrative case of regular motion along a “slow” coordinates leading to oscillations in the kinetics is examined. Different schemes of charge separation are investigated. A good fitting of experimental kinetics of native Rba. sphaeroid...

OBJECTIVE While bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) are currently indicated for rehabilitation in children older than 5 years with bilateral maximal conductive hearing loss, our objective was to capitalize on potentially important stages of auditory and speech-language development by providing BAHAs to children younger than 5 years. DESIGN A retrospective review of surgical data of children re...