Publications by authors named "K Breitenstein"
Article Synopsis
- A study referred to as SUPRATOL investigated the effects of transoral laser microsurgery for supraglottic laryngectomy, comparing its outcomes for swallowing and quality of life to traditional open surgery, revealing similar oncologic results but limited data on swallowing rehabilitation and QoL before this trial.
- The trial included 102 patients across 26 hospitals in Germany, with the main goal of measuring aspiration-free swallowing after one year and exploring various related factors such as tracheostomy needs and overall survival.
- Results showed high rates of aspiration-free swallowing at the 12-month mark, with a majority of patients still managing well with swallowing, although some required tracheostomy and PEG tube interventions, indicating mixed results on QoL
Emotion dysregulation has long been considered a key symptom in multiple psychiatric disorders. Difficulties in emotion regulation have been associated with neural dysregulation in fronto-limbic circuits. Real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-NFB) has become increasingly popular as a potential treatment for emotional dysregulation in psychiatric disorders, as it is able to directly target the impaired neural circuits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Social support has been shown to be positively associated with quality of life and adjustment after a cancer diagnosis. The present study investigates the course of social support up to one year after partial laryngectomy and its association with distress.
Design: Longitudinal questionnaire study.
[Smoking Behaviour after Partial Resection of the Larynx: The Role of Causal Attribution].
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol
August 2021
Objective: The aim of our study was to examine how different causal attributions in patients with laryngeal cancer are associated with smoking behaviours (smoking cessation rates and amount of cigarettes per day) after partial resection of the larynx.
Methods: Multicentre prospective cohort study including 4 interviews: between diagnosis and partial resection of larynx (t1), one week (t2), 3 months (t3) and 12 months (t4) after surgery. Presented in this study are t1 and t4.