Introduction: Bioabsorbable steroid-eluting implants are available as an adjunct for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). It is unclear which patients are most likely to benefit from this technology. We sought to determine if the severity of preoperative sinonasal inflammation influences the postoperative changes in patient-reported quality of life (Q...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether change in endoscopy score correlates with change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis. DESIGN Prospective open cohort. SETTING Tertiary rhinology clinic. PATIENTS One hundred two adult patients with and without nasal polyposis who elected to undergo endoscopic sinus surgery and were followed up ...

P. Mannfolk, M. Nilsson, R. Wirestam, F. Ståhlberg, P. Fransson, A. Weibull, and J. Olsrud Dept. of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Dept. of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Malmö, Swe...

The object of this study is to define the part played by maternal iron-deficiency anaemia in the pathogenesis of iron deficiency anaemia in infancy, a condition commonly found in Cape Town (Lanzkowsky and McKenzie, 1959; Lanzkowsky, 1959 and 1960a). A number of early reports on the effect of maternal iron-deficiency anaemia on the newborn have indicated that maternal anaemia does not cause anae...

OBJECTIVES Postoperative wound healing status has not been considered in earlier studies on olfactory changes after surgery. This may be a factor accounting for the equivocal postoperative olfactory results. The aim of this study was to investigate postoperative olfactory results according to wound healing status. METHODS Fifty patients who underwent endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhino...

The maximum rate at which a synaptic link could theoretically transmit information depends on the type of coding used. In a binary modulation system it depends chiefly on the relaxation time, and the limiting capacity equals the maximum attainable impulse rate. In a system using pulse-interval modulation, temporal precision may be a more important limiting factor. It is shown that in a number o...

Yu-Chung Kung1,2, Wen-Yeh Hsieh3*, Sen Sun4, Yu-Chen Chen5 1Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 2Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, 3Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu Branch, Hsinchu, and Departments of 4Cardiovascular Surgery and 5Pathology, Mackay Memorial Hosp...