Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting postoperative fever after endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal lesions.

Fever is a complication after colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). The objective of this study was to explore the incidence and risk factors of fever after colorectal ESD and establish a predictive nomogram model. This retrospective analysis encompassed patients with colorectal lesions who underwent ESD between June 2008 and December 2021 in our center.

The efficacy of sclerotherapy as the initial treatment in patients with bleeding from Dieulafoy's lesion of the upper gastrointestinal tract.

Background: Dieulafoy's lesion (DL) is a rare and important cause of acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (ANVUGIB), however, there is a lack of clear guidelines focus on the endoscopic hemostasis treatment for DL. Sclerotherapy, as the ANVUGIB guideline recommended endoscopic hemostasis method, is widely used in clinical practice. The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of sclerotherapy as the initial treatment for Dieulafoy's lesion of the upper gastrointestinal tract (UDL).

Brain Activation Site of Laryngeal Elevation During Swallowing: An fMRI Study.

The object of this study is to investigate dysphagia caused by reduced laryngeal elevation in patients poststroke. The central mechanism of laryngeal elevation during swallowing was explored by comparing the brain activation area before and after treatment with that of healthy subjects. The treatment group included patients diagnosed with dysphagia poststroke that showed reduced laryngeal elevation.

Relationship between laryngopharyngeal reflux disease and gastroesophageal reflux disease based on synchronous esophageal and oropharyngeal Dx-pH monitoring.

Purpose: To use the synchronous esophageal and oropharyngeal Dx-pH monitoring analysis to investigate the relationship between LPRD and GERD.

Materials And Methods: Synchronous esophageal and oropharyngeal Dx-pH monitoring, electronic gastroscopy, reflux symptom index (RSI) and gastroesophageal reflux questionnaire (Gerd-Q) were collected from 514 consecutive patients and comparative analysis was done.

Results: A total of 85 patients had positive Ryan score and 251 cases had positive DeMeester or acid exposure time percent (AET) ≥4.

Dysphagia Post Subcortical and Supratentorial Stroke.

Background: Studies have recognized that the damage in the subcortical and supratentorial regions may affect voluntary and involuntary aspects of the swallowing function. The current study attempted to explore the dysphagia characteristics in patients with subcortical and supratentorial stroke.

Methods: Twelve post first or second subcortical and supratentorial stroke patients were included in the study.

Cartilage engineering using chondrocyte cell sheets and its application in reconstruction of microtia.

The imperfections of scaffold materials have hindered the clinical application of cartilage tissue engineering. The recently developed cell-sheet technique is adopted to engineer tissues without scaffold materials, thus is considered being potentially able to overcome the problems concerning the scaffold imperfections. This study constructed monolayer and bilayer chondrocyte cell sheets and harvested the sheets with cell scraper instead of temperature-responsive culture dishes.

One-stage reconstruction of two atypical small concha-type microtic ears.

This report presents 2 cases of atypical small concha-type microtia, which were reconstructed with full utilization of the remnant cartilage. To repair the deformity, we harvested the 8th and 9th costal cartilage to form the helix and anthelix structure. The remnant auricular cartilage mass was retained and utilized as the base block of the framework, onto which sculptured helical rim and anthelix were added.

Patient self-perceptions of swallowing difficulties as compared to expert ratings of videofluorographic studies.

Background/aims: Research investigating the relationship between subjective and objective assessment of dysphagia in patients with various diagnoses has yielded conflicting results. The goal of this study is to investigate the reliability of patient self-perceptions of swallowing difficulties compared to expert ratings of videofluorographic studies considering three medical diagnostic categories: neurological disorders, structural deficits and general medical diagnoses.

Methods: One hundred and three patients who were referred for videofluorographic swallow evaluation were included in the study.

Swallow physiology in patients with trach cuff inflated or deflated: a retrospective study.

Background: Past research has suggested that medical diagnosis and trach cuff conditions may contribute to swallow physiology changes in patients with tracheostomy. This study attempts to investigate the differences in swallow physiology between patients with trach cuff-inflated and trach cuff-deflated conditions with respect to four medical diagnostic categories: neuromuscular disorder, head and neck cancer, respiratory diseases, and general medical diagnosis.

Methods: Retrospective database analysis of videofluoroscopic study results in 623 patients with tracheostomies with trach cuff-inflated or cuff-deflated conditions.

The effects of taste and consistency on swallow physiology in younger and older healthy individuals: a surface electromyographic study.

Recent studies done on healthy older individuals have demonstrated elevated taste thresholds for sweet, sour, and salty taste. At suprathreshold levels, such individuals have also shown less ability to discriminate between different intensities of the same tastant. This study was designed to provide information on swallow timing and muscle contraction intensity variables in healthy older people during swallowing of liquid and cottage cheese consistencies in 3 taste conditions (sweet, salty, and sour).

Surface electromyographic and electroglottographic studies in normal subjects under two swallow conditions: normal and during the Mendelsohn manuever.

Surface electromyography (EMG) has been used successfully in teaching patients swallow maneuvers in clinical settings. The present study aims to determine if surface EMG can reliably demonstrate differences in muscle activity between the normal swallow and the Mendelsohn maneuver and whether there is a close temporal relationship between submental muscles and laryngeal elevation as demonstrated by electroglottography (EGG). Surface EMG was measured from five muscle groups (superior and inferior orbicularis oris, masseter, submental and infrahyoid) in 20 normal subjects under two swallowing conditions: normal and during performance of the Mendelsohn maneuver.