Quels sont les facteurs de risque pour les lésions nerveuses ?
Les infections de l'oreille, les traumatismes crâniens et certaines chirurgies sont des facteurs de risque.
Infections de l'oreilleTraumatismes crâniensChirurgie
#2
L'âge influence-t-il le risque de lésion ?
Oui, le risque de lésion nerveuse peut augmenter avec l'âge en raison de la dégénérescence nerveuse.
ÂgeDégénérescence nerveuseFacteurs de risque
#3
Les maladies auto-immunes sont-elles un facteur de risque ?
Oui, certaines maladies auto-immunes peuvent affecter la fonction nerveuse et augmenter le risque.
Maladies auto-immunesFonction nerveuseFacteurs de risque
#4
Le diabète est-il un facteur de risque ?
Oui, le diabète peut endommager les nerfs et augmenter le risque de lésions nerveuses.
DiabèteNeuropathieFacteurs de risque
#5
Les antécédents familiaux jouent-ils un rôle ?
Oui, des antécédents familiaux de troubles nerveux peuvent augmenter le risque de lésion.
Antécédents familiauxTroubles nerveuxFacteurs de risque
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Department of Neurosurgery, Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States; Division of Gross and Clinical Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan; Dental and Oral Medical Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. Electronic address: iwanagajoeca@gmail.com.
Department of Neurosurgery, Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States; Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, West Indies, Grenada; Department of Neurosurgery and Ochsner Neuroscience Institute, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, LA, United States.
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2021-07-08
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2021-07-08
Department of Anatomical Sciences, St. George's University, St. George's, West Indies, Grenada; Department of Anatomy, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2021-07-08
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2021-07-08
Biomechanics and Biomaterials Design Laboratory (BBDL), School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, 865 Asp Ave., Felgar Hall Rm. 219C, Norman, OK, 73019-3609, USA.
Biomechanics and Biomaterials Design Laboratory (BBDL), School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, 865 Asp Ave., Felgar Hall Rm. 219C, Norman, OK, 73019-3609, USA.
Biomechanics and Biomaterials Design Laboratory (BBDL), School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Oklahoma, 865 Asp Ave., Felgar Hall Rm. 219C, Norman, OK, 73019-3609, USA. ch.lee@ou.edu.
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Science and Technology (IBEST), The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA. ch.lee@ou.edu.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan. takahashima@jikei.ac.jp.
European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2022-07-15
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2022-07-15
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2022-07-15
To evaluate taste disorders after middle ear surgery, their modifying factors especially chorda tympani nerve injury or underlying otologic disease. We investigated consequences of taste disorders on ...
Prospective cohort study....
Monocentric study in tertiary care center....
A total of 214 patients who underwent middle ear surgery were included. Data regarding taste disorders were collected by questionnaires over a 1-year follow-up period....
Taste disorders were reported in 42.7% at 10 days, in 23.3% at 4 months, and in 9.2% 1 year postoperatively. When the chorda tympani nerve was initially healthy, taste disorders were more frequent aft...
Taste disorders are frequent after middle ear surgery although they mostly improve in the first months. When the CTN is healthy, cutting it leads to more taste disorders than stretching it, thus advoc...
Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, especially deep learning (DL) techniques, have shown promising results for various computer vision tasks in the field of surgery. However, AI-guided navigation...
Various convolutional neural networks were constructed, trained, and validated for semantic segmentation of CT. Our dataset has 5817 images annotated from 36 patients, which were further randomly spli...
When evaluated on a validation set (581 images), our proposed CT detection networks achieved great performance, and the modified U-net performed best (mIOU = 0.892, mPA = 0.9427). Moreover, when apply...
This study suggests that DL can be used for the automated detection and segmentation of CT in patients with otosclerosis during microscopic surgery with a high degree of performance. Our research vali...
Surgical repair with artificial chordae replacement has emerged as a standard treatment for mitral regurgitation. Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) sutures are commonly employed as artificial c...
Sinus tympani is one of the hidden space in the retrotympanic area of middle ear which is commonly invaded by cholesteatoma and known for recidivism. Conventional surgical approaches sometimes fail to...
The cochlear implant (CI) belongs to the most successful neuro-prostheses. Traditionally, the stimulating electrode arrays are inserted into the scala tympani (ST), the lower cochlear cavity, which en...
In this computational study, the excitability of 25 ANFs are compared for stimulation with ST and SV implants. We employed a 3-dimensional realistic human cochlear model with lateral wall electrodes b...
ANO thresholds are lower in ST (mean/std = µ/σ =189/55 µA) stimulation compared to SV (µ/σ = 323/119 µA) stimulation. Contrary, CAT thresholds are higher for the ST array (µ/σ = 165/42 µA) compared to...
We present a first simulation study with a human cochlear model that investigates an additional CI placement into the SV and its impact on the excitation behavior. Results predict comparable outcomes ...
The anatomy of the retrotympanum is highly variable, and surgical access is challenging. In the medial retrotympanum, a descending series of recesses are found: the posterior tympanic sinus, the sinus...
The ST was evaluated bilaterally in all the anatomical planes on a lot of 100 cases. Two sagittal anatomical types of the ST were defined and counted: type 0 (saccular ST), with absent postero-inferio...
In 200 sides, 144 type 0 ST (72%) and 56 types 1 (PIRs) of the ST were found (28%). On the right/left sides the type 0 ST was found in 74%/70% and the type 1, with PIR, in 26%/30%. There were no signi...
The PIR of the ST is not a scarce anatomical variation in the retrotympanum. It is hidden deep to the ST and difficult to access through the middle ear. It also could retain residual cholesteatoma. A ...
There is a paucity of data reporting the rate of chorda tympani nerve injury during cochlear implantation (CI) surgery. To better provide clarity to patients and surgeons regarding the risk of taste c...
PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were queried....
Databases were queried according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Search terms included "(chorda tympani OR gustatory OR taste OR chemosensory OR d...
The initial database query yielded 2,437 articles, which were screened according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. Nine appropriate studies were identified, including 442 total patients-254 with su...
Taste change from chorda tympani nerve injury is a likely underrecognized complication of CI and may be the most common adverse consequence of CI surgery. Surgeons should counsel prospective patients ...
We present a case of a ruptured mitral valve chorda visualized using the high temporal and axial resolution of transthoracic M-mode echocardiography....
The mitral subvalvular apparatus can exhibit complex and unique anatomical variations. Accessory mitral valve chordae (AMVC) typically present as additional thin strands in the left ventricle. Their a...
The chordae tendineae, described as fibro-collagenous structures, support the leaflets of the atrioventricular valves of the heart in various ways. The chordae tendineae are composed of collagen and e...