Assessing Symptomatic Hypocalcemia Risk After Total Thyroidectomy: A Prospective Study.

 The most common postoperative complication of total thyroidectomy is hypocalcemia, usually monitored using serum parathyroid hormone and calcium values.  To identify the most accurate predictors of hypocalcemia, construct a risk assesment algorithm and analyze the impact of using several calcium correction formulas in practice.  A prospective, single-center, non-randomized longitudinal cohort study on 205 patients undergoing total thyroidectomy.

In search of new stratification strategies: tissue proteomic profiling of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma in patients with localized disease and lateral neck metastases.

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) are the most common thyroid malignancies that are often diagnosed as microcarcinomas when the tumor is less than one centimetre in diameter. Currently, there are no valid stratification strategies that would reliably assess the risk of lateral neck metastases and optimize surgical treatment.

Materials And Methods: Aiming to find potential tissue biomarkers of metastatic potential, we conducted a cross-sectional proteomic pilot study on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues of metastatic (N = 10) and non-metastatic (N = 10) papillary thyroid microcarcinoma patients.

Impact of preoperative antibiotic use in preventing complications of cochlear implantation surgery.

Objective: To examine the impact of preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis on the occurrence of postoperative complications.

Materials And Methods: Data of 491 patients undergoing cochlear implantation were included in a non-randomized retrospective comparative cohort study. Demographic data, cochlear implant and surgical details, use of preoperative antibiotics and occurrence of postoperative complications were analyzed using a binary logistic regression model.

Epistemic responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: Is a digital infosphere a friend or a foe?

Digital technologies have a significant role in collecting, filtering and disseminating information, allowing for social, healthcare and economic activities even in the context of highly restrictive public health measures in the current COVID-19 pandemic. As personal contact is greatly reduced, they also create a shared informational landscape, allowing for a shared threat response. This is a difficult task, since truthfulness of content that leads to actionable knowledge is impossible to consistently validate.

The usefulness of wideband absorbance in the diagnosis of otosclerosis.

To compare wideband absorbance (WBA) patterns between ears with otosclerosis and normal hearing ears and to investigate if WBA findings could be useful in the diagnosis of otosclerosis. WBA was obtained at 107 frequency samples ranging from 0.226 to 8 kHz (24 per octave).