Evaluating the Efficacy of Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture Combined With Patient-Controlled Intravenous Analgesia for Managing Post Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of combining wrist-ankle acupuncture with patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) on active pain and food intake in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) after undergoing uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP).

Methods: Sixty patients with OSAHS who underwent UPPP at our hospital's Department of Otorhinolaryngology from January 2020 to October 2023 were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups of 30 each: an observation group and a control group. The control group received general anesthesia administered by an anesthesiologist and used a PCIA pump.

Sudden deafness as an initial presentation of varicella: case report and literature review.

Varicella, or chickenpox, is a highly contagious disease transmitted by the varicella zoster virus (VZV). Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) has been defined as a loss of at least 30 dB over at least three frequencies on audiogram within three days and with an uncertain cause. Deafness caused by varicella-zoster virus occasionally occurred in Ramsey hunter syndrome but associated with chickenpox is rare.

Correlation between serum lipid and prognosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a prospective cohort study.

Background: To investigate the correlation between blood lipids and the prognosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL).

Methods: We included 232 patients with ISSNHL at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shanghai University from June 2015 to March 2017 using a prospective cohort study design. We collected information including age, gender, hypertension, diabetes, mellitus, vertigo, as well as the levels of blood total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), and low-density lipoproteins (LDL-C).

Comprehensive Identification of Potential Crucial Genes and miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Networks in Papillary Thyroid Cancer.

Background: Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, with a recent global increase of 20% in age-related incidence. Ultrasonography and ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) are the most widely used diagnostic tests for thyroid nodules; however, it is estimated that up to 25% of thyroid biopsies are cytologically inconclusive. Molecular markers can help guide patient-oriented and targeted treatment of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer.

Long Non-Coding RNA LUCAT1 Promotes Progression of Thyroid Carcinoma by Reinforcing ADAM10 Expression Through Sequestering microRNA-493.

Background: Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) LUCAT1 has recently been recognized as an oncogene in several malignancies. This study was launched to probe its role in thyroid carcinoma (TC) development and the implicated molecules.

Methods: LUCAT1 expression in TC cell lines and in normal thyroid follicular epithelial cell line Nthy-ori3-1 was determined by RT-qPCR.

Finite elements analysis of the temporomandibular joint disc in patients with intra-articular disorders.

Background: Intra-articular disorders (ID) or anterior and/or medial displacement of the temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) disc are the most common form of TMJ dysfunction (TMD). TMD causes changes in the friction coefficient during TMJ movement. Herein, we provided a three-dimensional (3D) finite-elements model (FEM) including the maxilla, disc, and mandible and evaluated the stress distribution with different friction coefficient.

[The analysis of correlation between tongue body MRI and upper airway pressure measurements of blocked lingual region in patients with moderate and severe OSAHS].

Objective: To investigate the correlation between tongue body MRI measurements and the lingual region obstruction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, OSAHS), and the relationship of two diagnosis methods in positioning obstructive level, in order to improve the preoperative diagnostic accuracy of obstructive level in OSAHS patients .

Method: Fifty-nine patients with OSAHS definited by the AG200 sleep apnea monitoring and obstruction plane positioning system was included. They all underwent tongue MRI scan, after three-dimensional reconstruction, the tongue body length to diameter, relative thickness, basal diameter, wide around central about wide diameter and tongue body volume were measured.