Maxillomandibular Reconstruction Using Insourced Virtual Surgical Planning and Homemade CAD/CAM: A Single-Center Evolution in 75 Patients.

Background: Virtual surgical planning (VSP) and computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) of surgical guides and jigs have dramatically changed the predictability of bony reconstruction of the jaw. VSP craftsmanship can lead to precision and enables the surgeon to complement the donor bone osteotomies with bony resection of the jaw. In recent years, immediate dental rehabilitation has become an integral part of VSP.

Implementing the Robotic deep inferior epigastric perforator Flap in daily practice: A series of 10 cases.

The deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is the workhorse in microvascular breast reconstruction. Rectus muscle sacrifice or denervation and inappropriate rectus sheath closure are the main causes of abdominal wall morbidity. Robotic vessel dissection may limit fascial incision length below the arcuate line and rectus denervation.

Short-term CPAP does not influence the increased CO2 drive in idiopathic central sleep apnea.

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improves idiopathic central sleep apnea (ICSA), but the mechanisms are not completely understood. It has been demonstrated that some ICSA patients have an increased CO2 drive, expressed by the hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR). The aim of our study was to evaluate whether CPAP can decrease the HCVR in successfully treated ICSA patients.

Influence of longterm CPAP therapy on CO(2) drive in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

According to recent publications, the values of the hypercapnic ventilatory responses (HCVR) in normocapnic obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients are highly variable, but they are usually within the normal range. In our study, CPAP therapy during 1 month did not seem to influence the HCVR [Verbraecken, J., De Backer, W.

Chronic CO2 drive in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and effect of CPAP.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can be associated with depressed hypercapnic ventilatory response (HCVR) (White D.P., N.