Assessing paralysis

Thyroplastic medialisation in unilateral vocal fold paralysis: assessing voice quality recovering

Medialization thyroplasty and endoscopic intracordal infusion of fat or heterologous materials are the treatments of choice for glottic incompetence, of both neurological and cicatricial origin. Functional evaluation after thyroplastic medialisation is often based on several approaches, in order to assess the effectiveness of the adopted technique. The most common analysis methods are: videolar...

A method for assessing chemically-induced paralysis in headless mosquito larvae.

There is a growing interest in studies of mosquito physiology and toxicology due to the heightened need for controlling this group of human disease vectors. In the process of testing a group of polar compounds on mosquito muscles, a novel headless larva bioassay was developed. The heads were removed from fourth instar Aedes aegypti larvae, which permitted access of pharmacological agents to the...

Assessing impairment and disability of facial paralysis in patients with vestibular schwannoma.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate facial impairment and disability with respect to quality of life in patients with facial paresis after vestibular schwannoma surgery. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Academic, tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS All consecutive patients during a 5-year period who underwent vestibular schwannoma surgery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The validated, patient-...

Tourniquet paralysis.

CLINICAL MATERIAL OF necessity, a very large sample of procedures needs to be gathered to give a significant amount of information, as complications from the use of tourniquets are rare. Because of their rarity and the concern of the surgeon on these occasions, it was thought that questionnaire information was likely to be quite accurate. One hundred and fifty-one members of the Australian Orth...

Infantile Paralysis