OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical features of cochlear reimplantation due to device failure. METHODS The medical records of 30 patients who had undergone a revision cochlear implantation were retrospectively reviewed. Causes of revision operations, number of electrode channels inserted, and postoperative speech performances were analyzed. RESULTS Device failure (...

Received October 2006 Accepted May 2007 INTRODUCTION Ureteral anomalies, ectopic ureter being one of them, are of the most important urogenital abnormalities because they directly affect kidney function.(1) Several techniques have been used for treatment of ectopic ureter. The goal of obstruction relief can be achieved by either ureteropyelostomy or common sheath ureteral reimplantation for a d...

Received January 2009 Accepted March 2009 INTRODUCTION Self-mutilations of the external genitals in psychiatric patients is also known as Klingsor syndrome. (1) These patients show a high tendency to repeating self-aggressive actions, especially when their medical therapy is discontinued.(2,3) In 1929, Ehrlich reported the first successful penile reimplantation of an amputated penis.(4) Althoug...

Purpose. In recent years, endoscopic injection became the procedure of choice for the correction of vesicoureteral reflux in the majority of the centers. Unfortunately, endoscopic treatment is not always successful and sometimes requires more than one trial to achieve similar results to that of an open reimplantation surgery. Our aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and success rate...

In patients who have antibiotic-loaded cement hip spacers in the interim period, the correct diagnosis of infection eradication is the major determinant before reimplantation arthroplasty. Diagnosis is usually based on clinical findings and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. However, diagnosis can be challenging when the clinical findings are normal but the CRP level is high. From March 200...

PURPOSE We review our experience using a new and easily removable ureteral catheter in patients who underwent complicated ureteral reimplantation. Our goal was to shorten hospital stay and lower anxiety during catheter removal without fear of postoperative ureteral obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between April 2009 and September 2010, nine patients who underwent our new method of catheter ...

OBJECTIVE To find if patients experiencing postsurgical facial nerve stimulation caused by underlying disease process (ie, otosclerosis) can improve their hearing performance with their cochlear implant by reimplantation and by an optimal programming strategy. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Academic tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Two cochlear otosclerosis patients with resista...

BACKGROUND Reimplantation and remodeling procedure are two different techniques for valve-sparing aortic root surgery. A number of comparative series have been published but, to date, there has been no meta-analysis comparing outcomes following the two techniques. METHODS This meta-analysis was performed in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews. A public domain database...

OBJECTIVES We describe rates of success for two-stage revision of prosthetic joint infection (PJI), including data on reimplantation microbiology. METHODS We retrospectively collected data from all the cases of PJI that were managed with two-stage revision over a 4 year period. Patients were managed with an antibiotic-free period before reimplantation, in order to confirm, clinically and micr...