Previous Use of Combined Oral Contraception in High Complexity Assisted Reproduction Treatments in Protocol with Oral Progestin - Previous use of COC and ART.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of prior use of combined oral contraceptives in assisted reproduction techniques with ovulation blockade by oral progestin.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study with a single-center convenience sample of patients treated between 2018 and 2021. Two groups were compared: with and without a history of combined oral contraceptives (comparator).

A finite element model to predict the consequences of endolymphatic hydrops in the basilar membrane.

Ménière's disease is an inner ear disorder, associated with episodes of vertigo, fluctuant hearing loss, tinnitus, and aural fullness. Ménière's disease is associated with endolymphatic hydrops. Clinical evidences show that this disease is often incapacitating, negatively affecting the patients' everyday life.

Finite element modelling of the surgical procedure for placement of a straight electrode array: Mechanical and clinical consequences.

A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted into the cochlea to directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Such device is used in patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss. The cochlear implant surgery is safe, but involves some risks, such as infections, device malfunction or damage of the facial nerve and it can result on a poor hearing outcome, due to the destruction of any present residual hearing.

On the hearing effects of a cholesteatoma growing: A biomechanical study.

Chronic otitis media enables the appearance of a benign middle ear tumor, known as a cholesteatoma, that may compromise hearing. To evaluate the influence of a cholesteatoma growth on the hearing function, a computational middle ear model based on the finite element method was used and three different size of cholesteatoma were modeled. The cholesteatoma solidification and the consequent degradation of the ossicles were also simulated as two condition that commonly occurs during cholesteatoma evolution.