Type III Thyroplasty for Patients With High-Pitched Voice Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: High-pitched voice disorders can present notable social and professional obstacles for cisgender and transgender men. Our study aims to conduct a comprehensive meta-analysis assessing the efficacy of type III thyroplasty, also known as relaxation thyroplasty, for different populations with high-pitched voice disorders.

Data Sources: A systematic literature review was conducted following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, searching Medline/Pubmed, Embase, Cochrane, Science Direct, Scielo, LILACS, and Google Scholar databases from inception to April 2024.

Profile of oropharyngeal swallowing in healthy Brazilian adults and older adults.

Objectives: To describe the findings of Fiberoptic Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing (FEES) in asymptomatic young and older adults, comparing results across different age groups. Additionally, this study aims to test the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) as an instrument to identify dysphagia risk.

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional observational analysis was conducted on a sample of individuals aged 20 and above, asymptomatic for dysphagia, stratified by age groups.

Predictive factors of frozen section in transoral microlaryngeal surgery for suspicious glottic lesions.

Objective: Frozen biopsy may guide surgical intraoperative decisions. We evaluated the accuracy of frozen biopsy for diagnosing benign, dysplastic and malignant laryngeal lesions, compared to paraffin section (gold standard).

Methods: Retrospective review of the charts of all patients presenting with laryngeal lesions suspicious of malignancy, who underwent laryngeal microsurgery with frozen biopsy in our institution, between 2015 and 2020.

Effect of Testosterone on the Thyroarytenoid Muscle and Lamina Propria of Female Rat Vocal Folds.

Objective: To analyze the effects of androgen therapy on the thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle, expression of androgen receptors (ARs) and hyaluronic acid (HA) concentration in the vocal folds (VFs) of adult female rats.

Methods: Twenty-one adult female Wistar rats were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received weekly intramuscular injections of nandrolone decanoate for 9 weeks.

Species which may act as vectors or reservoirs of diseases covered by the Animal Health Law: Listed pathogens of fish.

Vector or reservoir species of five fish diseases listed in the Animal Health Law were identified, based on evidence generated through an extensive literature review (ELR), to support a possible updating of Regulation (EU) 2018/1882. Fish species on or in which highly polymorphic region-deleted infectious salmon anaemia virus (HPR∆ ISAV), Koi herpes virus (KHV), epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus (EHNV), infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) or viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) were detected, in the field or during experiments, were classified as reservoir species with different levels of certainty depending on the diagnostic tests used. Where experimental evidence indicated transmission of the pathogen from a studied species to another known susceptible species, the studied species was classified as a vector species.