نتایج جستجو برای: tonsillectomy
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OBJECTIVE To investigate weight gain and any increased risk of obesity in children who have undergone tonsillectomy. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary care pediatric hospital. PATIENTS The study included 200 children aged 2 to 12 years who were undergoing tonsillectomy and 200 age- and sex-matched controls. All children had a preoperative body mass index (BMI) and a post...
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Tonsillectomy is related to increased risk of certain types of cancer. This study evaluates the possible association between tonsillectomy and cancer in Taiwan. METHODS Data from the National Health Insurance system of Taiwan was used. A cohort study consisting of 997 patients with a new diagnosis of tonsillectomy from 2000 to 2005 and a comparison cohort of 3,988 subjec...
OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature on harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy with a view of comparing its postoperative hemorrhagic rate with the conventional methods for tonsillectomy. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, INAHTA, CRD (Centre for Review and Dissemination, York, UK), and related databases. The date of the last search was September 19, 2006; papers wer...
Tonsils are one of the important secondary lymphoid organ in immune system. It remains controversial whether tonsillectomy results in decreased serum immunoglobulin level. The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of tonsillectomy on humoral immunity parameters among the patients with tonsillar disease. Total group A 70 patients up to the age of 18 years, who were enrolled for tonsill...
OBJECTIVE To determine re-admission rate for post-tonsillectomy pain; the primary and secondary post-tonsillectomy bleeding rate; the percentage requiring control of post-tonsillectomy bleeding in children undergoing coblation tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill Hospital) between 2004 and 2006. METHODOLOGY...
Tonsillectomy is the most common surgery performed by an ENT surgeon & it is the most risky surgery as its complications are sometime life threatening. So far not much effort has been focused in training the junior residents in tonsillectomy using the models, like temporal bone dissection for ear surgeries, whereas lot of live ENT surgical workshop are conducted other than tonsillectomy to trai...
OBJECTIVES To review pediatric cases of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) in 6 patients who underwent tonsillectomy and had marked improvement of their renal symptoms and to review the appropriate indications for tonsillectomy for this disease. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENTS Six children (age range, 8-15 years) with renal biopsy-proved IgAN who were refer...
introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by ear, nose, and throat surgeon. usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. with the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis. materials and methods: a...
Objective To assess posttonsillectomy hemorrhage (PTH), associated nonoperative readmissions/revisits, and reoperations in children. Data Sources MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. Review Methods Two investigators independently screened studies against predetermined criteria and extracted key data. Investigators independently assessed study risk of bias and the strength of the evidence ...
OBJECTIVE To analyze variation in tonsillectomy procedure rates between health care system types around the world. STUDY DESIGN International database analysis. METHODS The 2015 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics surgical procedures database was used to ascertain tonsillectomy procedure volumes for 31 countries. Each country's health system type ...
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