A survey on vaccines knowledge and acceptance among individuals with diabetes and their close contacts.

Introduction: The Asociación para el Cuidado de la Diabetes en Argentina - CUI.D.AR, carried out an online survey specifically designed to collect the knowledge and perceptions people who suffered from diabetes mellitus and their close contacts had on the Influenza virus and the potential risks associated with the infection.

Spectral Properties of Brain Activity Under Two Anesthetics and Their Potential for Inducing Natural Sleep in Birds.

Both mammals and birds exhibit two sleep states, slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Studying certain aspects of sleep-related electrophysiology in freely behaving animals can present numerous methodological constraints, particularly when even fine body movements interfere with electrophysiological signals. Interestingly, under light general anesthesia, mammals and birds also exhibit slow waves similar to those observed during natural SWS.

Bone-anchored hearing aid (Baha) in patients with Treacher Collins syndrome: tips and pitfalls.

Objectives: Treacher Collins syndrome, also known as mandibulofacial dysostosis, is an autosomal dominant disorder of the cranio-facial morphogenesis affecting 1 of 50,000 live newborns. Most children with this disease present with bilateral, severe conductive hearing loss due to bilateral aural atresia. Auditory rehabilitation of these children can be effectively carried out with bone-anchored hearing aids (Baha).

Maternally inherited deafness associated with a T1095C mutation in the mDNA.

Hearing loss is a relatively frequent defect in children with a genetic or predisposition basis in about 50% of cases. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-associated disorder often present with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) either in isolation or as a part of a multisystem disorder in adults but the frequency in pediatric cases is unknown. We analysed deafness-related mtDNA mutations in 80 deaf children to assess the relative frequency of alterations in childhood-onset SNHL.

Audiological findings in patients with microdeletion 22q11 (di George/velocardiofacial syndrome).

Microdeletion 22q11 (del22q11) is one of the most frequent causes of genetic syndromes. The majority of cases of di George and velocardiofacial syndromes are due to del22q11. These conditions are considered to be developmentally related to neural crest anomalies influencing the differentiation of the branchial arches, including the percursor tissue of the ear.

[Otomastoiditis caused by Mycobacterium avium: a case report].

Non tuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infections mainly affect immunocompromised patients, appearing as disseminated or pulmonary disease. In immunocompetent children the most common form of infection with NTM is cervical adenitis. Ear infection seems to be a rare disease.

Sensorineural hearing loss in patients reaching chronic renal failure in childhood.

The incidence of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) was investigated in 68 patients who reached chronic renal failure (CRF) in childhood with the aim of identifying possible risk factors. Tests were carried out by means of pure-tone and impedance audiometry. SNHL was found in 29% of patients on conservative treatment, 28% of patients on hemodialysis, and 47% after renal transplantation.

[A rare case of endotympanic hemangioma].

Hemangiomas affectioning the external ear canal or the tympanic membrane have rarely been described. Only a very few cases are reported in world literature conarn these vascular tumors involving the middle ear space. The Authors report a rare case of a right endotympanic hemangioma associated with ossicular dysmorphism, resulting in conductive unilateral hearing loss, in a 9 year-old girl with cutaneous hemangiomas of the face.

[Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in the diagnosis of pulmonary infections in immunocompromised children].

The authors report their personal case records of broncho-alveolar lavage in immuno-compromised children. 22 children were observed from 1991 to 1992 at the E.N.

[Monostotic fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone: description of a case and review of the literature].

Only a few cases of fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone (monostotic form) have been described in the literature. The recent observation of a 15-year-old child presenting this pathology led the authors to review the literature available and to analyze the most common aspects of this disease. The clinical and radiological aspects, the differential diagnosis, histopathological features and therapeutical approaches are discussed.

Otologic impairments in achondroplasia: a nosologic assessment.

The AA report a clinical and radiological study performed in 18 achondroplastic patients in order to achieve a nosological settlement of the otological impairments. They found two main otological syndromes; one, a congenital dysplasic syndrome, showing permanent conductive or sensory-neural hearing loss due to malformations of the middle ear or of the inner ear; the other, an inflammatory tubal tympanic syndrome with transient conductive hearing loss, which is relatively frequent in achondroplastic patients, but seems not related to the main disease.

Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss in children.

The authors present a report of 280 cases of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (U.H.L.

Sudden deafness in children.

The authors present a report of 38 cases of sudden deafness (SD), observed in the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome. Twenty-six cases were due to infective causes, such as mumps, meningitis, measles, varicella or to physical trauma. The other 12 cases were defined as idiopathic (ISD) on the basis of their anamnestic and clinical findings.