Rehabilitation of Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus: Focus on Diabetic Myopathy.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high blood glucose levels, causing serious damage to the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and other systems. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was 6.28% in 2017, considering all age groups worldwide (prevalence rate of 6,059 cases per 100,000), and its global prevalence is projected to increase to 7,079 cases per 100,000 by 2030.

Intracochlear schwannoma: diagnosis and management.

Introduction Schwannomas of the eighth cranial nerve are benign tumors that usually occur in the internal auditory canal or the cerebellopontine angle cistern. Rarely, these tumors may originate from the neural elements within the vestibule, cochlea, or semicircular canals and are called intralabyrinthine schwannomas. Intracochlear schwannomas (ICSs) represent a small percentage of these tumors, and their diagnosis is based on high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Implantable and semi-implantable hearing AIDS: a review of history, indications, and surgery.

Introduction The complaints associated with the use of conventional amplifying hearing aids prompted research at several centers worldwide that ultimately led to the development of implantable devices for aural rehabilitation. Objectives To review the history, indications, and surgical aspects of the implantable middle ear hearing devices. Data Synthesis Implantable hearing aids, such as the Vibrant Soundbridge system (Med-El Corporation, Innsbruck, Austria), the Maxum system (Ototronix LLC, Houston, Texas, United States), the fourth-generation of Carina prosthesis (Otologics LLC, Boulder, Colorado, United States), and the Esteem device (Envoy Medical Corporation - Minnesota, United States), have their own peculiarities on candidacy and surgical procedure.

Carina® and Esteem®: a systematic review of fully implantable hearing devices.

Objective: To review the outcomes of the fully implantable middle ear devices Carina and Esteem regarding the treatment of hearing loss.

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Scielo, and Cochrane Library databases were searched.

Study Selection: Abstracts of 77 citations were screened, and 43 articles were selected for full review.

Pediatric phoniatry outpatient ward: clinical and epidemiological characteristics.

Unlabelled: Children with language or learning impairment and normal hearing need phoniatric assessment to analyse various communication and development aspects targeting the differential diagnosis and therapeutic indications.

Objective: Characterize clinical and epidemiological features of a pediatric population treated in a phoniatric outpatient clinic.

Method: A cross-sectional historical cohort study (retrospective study) was performed involving 68 patients undergoing phoniatric consultation.

Sedative antidepressants and insomnia.

Objective: The present review addresses the relationship between sleep and depression and how serotonergic transmission is implicated in both conditions.

Method: Literature searches were performed in the PubMed and MedLine databases up to March 2010. The terms searched were "insomnia", "depression", "sedative antidepressants" and "serotonin".