Keep Calm: Does parental preoperative anxiety affect post-tonsillectomy pain scores in children?

Purpose: To understand if high parental anxiety leads to increased post-tonsillectomy pain in children.

Methods: Prospective study including parents of children aged 3-10 years old submitted to tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy. To evaluate anxiety, parents were asked to fill the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory form-Y, with postoperative pain being evaluated with the Wong-Baker FACES pain scale at postoperative days 1, 3 and 7.

Laryngectomy: Phonation Alternatives and Their Impact on the Quality of Life.

Background The decision to consent to surgery is a life-changing moment. This study addresses the impact of total laryngectomy (TL) on phonation and its effect on the quality of life (QoL) of patients. The primary objective of this cohort study is to compare the alternatives in phonation rehabilitation, and the secondary objective is to identify concurrent predictors of vocal outcomes.

Labyrinthine Fistula in Chronic Otitis Media Surgery: Management and Outcomes.

The objective of this retrospective study was to present the experience on the management of labyrinthine fistula secondary to chronic otitis media in a tertiary center. 263 patients, who underwent tympanomastoidecomy, in Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, between 2015 and 2020 were reviewed, to select only those with labyrinthine fistulas. 26 patients (9.

Clues for facial canal dehiscence in chronic otitis media.

Introduction And Objectives: The goal of this study was to determine the impact of external and middle ear findings in the incidence of facial canal dehiscence (FCD) during mastoidectomy for chronic otitis media.

Material And Methods: We examined the operative details of 186 patients who underwent primary tympanomastoidectomy for chronic otitis media between January 2015 and January 2020 retrospectively. In this study we only evaluated the second portion of the facial nerve canal.

Geriatric otorhinolaryngology: reasons for outpatient referrals from generalists to ENT specialists.

Purpose: To determine the main symptoms leading to referral of geriatric patients from primary care to otorhinolaryngology.

Methods:  Retrospective, observational study performed on patients aged 65 and older, referred from Primary Care to the Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery department of a tertiary centre during 2019 and 2020. Symptoms leading to otorhinolaryngological referral were categorized as "Oto-neurological symptoms", "Nasal symptoms", "Pharyngolaryngeal symptoms", "Other Head and Neck symptoms" and "Other Reasons".

Autoinflation compared to ventilation tubes for treating chronic otitis media with effusion.

Background: Otitis media with effusion (OME) is the most common cause of acquired hearing loss and surgery in children. Autoinflation has been suggested as an alternative treatment for OME.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare treatment outcome with a new autoinflation device versus ventilation tube (VT) surgery or watchful waiting in children with chronic bilateral OME from the waiting list for surgery.

Hyperacusis and stapes surgery: An observation in fifty patients after stapedotomy.

Objective: To assess hyperacusis after stapedotomy and its possible influencing factors.

Study Design: Prospective, interventional, and longitudinal study.

Setting: A tertiary referral center.

Fluoroquinolone-metal complexes: a route to counteract bacterial resistance?

Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the biggest public health threats of the modern world. Antibiotic resistance is an area of much clinical relevance and therefore research that has the potential to identify agents that may circumvent it or treat resistant infections is paramount. Solution behavior of various fluoroquinolone (FQ) complexes with copper(II) in the presence and absence of 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) was studied in aqueous solution, by potentiometry and/or spectrophotometry, and are herein described.