Mesenchymal Stem Cells injection in hip osteoarthritis: preliminary results.

Background And Aim Of The Work: Osteoarthritis will become even more common in the near future since the average life span is steadily growing. Pain and loss of function are the main complaints reported by patients, inevitably leading towards a worsened daily life performance. New modern techniques have been developed with advanced cell based therapies.

Uni- and multivariate models for investigating potential prognostic factors in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

With a worldwide incidence estimated at 8-15 per 100,000 population a year, idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) is a common clinical finding for otologists. There is a shortage of information on the clinical factors capable of predicting hearing recovery and response to therapy. The aim of the present study was to retrospectively investigate the prognostic value of clinical variables in relation to hearing recovery, in a cohort of 117 consecutive patients with ISSHL.

Indications for postoperative radiotherapy in laryngeal carcinoma: a panel of tumor tissue markers for predicting locoregional recurrence in surgically treated carcinoma. A pilot study.

Background: Combining primary surgery with postoperative radiotherapy (RT) significantly reduces locoregional recurrence rates in selected patients with laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). A prognostic model was used to see if associating laryngeal SCC tissue markers (mammary serine protease inhibitor [MASPIN], CD105, angiogenin [ANG], and nm23-H1) with conventional criteria could better discriminate higher-risk patients warranting postoperative RT.

Methods: The study involved 76 consecutively operated patients with laryngeal SCC not recommended for postoperative RT, in accord with current guidelines.