2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines and thyroid-stimulating hormone suppression after thyroid lobectomy.

Background: 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines recommended more conservative treatment in low-risk well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC), stating that lobectomy alone may be sufficient. The guidelines further recommend mild thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level suppression (0.5-2 mU/L) for this population.

Development of a microporous annealed particle hydrogel for long-term vocal fold augmentation.

Objectives/hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to develop and provide evidence of a novel permanent injectable biomaterial for vocal fold augmentation with the potential to treat glottic incompetence by evaluating its performance in two animal models.

Study Design: Animal model.

Methods: Microporous annealed particle (MAP) hydrogel was fabricated using a water-in-oil emulsion method and synthetically tuned to match the stiffness modulus of native vocalis muscle.

Oxygen Saturation of Retinal Vessels in All Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy and Correlation to Ultra-Wide Field Fluorescein Angiography.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine retinal hemoglobin oxygen saturation (SO2) in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) using retinal oximetry (RO) and to correlate the degree of retinal ischemia using intravenous fluorescein angiography (IVFA).

Methods: This is a single-center cross-sectional cohort study. Twenty-seven controls and 60 adult patients with diabetes mellitus (16 without DR and 44 with DR) were enrolled.