The Impact of Cochlear Implant in the Oral Language of Children with Congenital Deafness.

Introduction: Children with severe to profound sensorineural deafness can acquire vocabulary and syntactic structures to communicate by oral language, after cochlear implant.

Aim: Identify the linguistic skills of children with cochlear implant.

Material And Methods: Eighteen children of both gender, between 9 and 10 years, with congenital bilateral deafness, using cochlear implant, were studied.

Recto-anal manometric characteristics of type 2 diabetic patients who have sensation of incomplete defecation.

Introduction: Many diabetic patients report symptoms of incomplete defecation. We aimed to clarify the recto-anal manometric characteristics related to these symptoms.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire regarding gastrointestinal symptoms was distributed to 35 diabetics (19 women and 16 men) aged between 39 and 81 years.

Transit of radiopaque particles through the gastrointestinal tract: comparison between type 2 diabetes patients and healthy individuals.

Background/aims: some studies have reported controversial results when comparing the gastrointestinal transit between diabetic and healthy individuals. Therefore, we compared the gastrointestinal transit of radiopaque particles between diabetic and non-diabetic healthy individuals.

Methods: abdominal radiographies were performed for 45 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and 35 healthy individuals (gender and age similar for both groups) at 24 and 72 h after they ingested radiopaque particles.

Esophageal body motility in people with diabetes: comparison with non-diabetic healthy individuals.

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare esophageal motor characteristics between diabetics and healthy individuals.

Methods: Esophageal manometry was performed in 34 type 2 diabetics and 32 healthy individuals. Waves were evaluated in the 3 thirds of the esophagus (P1=upper, P2=middle, and P3=distal).