Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery
2020-06-05
From Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (H.A.-S.); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (R.S.K.), and RTI International, Research Triangle Park (D.M., L.B., B.A.C., S.M.T.) - both in North Carolina; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (V.N.I.); University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (A.M.P.); Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (J.E.D.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (C.R.W.), and CureHHT, Monkton (M.C.) - both in Maryland; University of Utah, Salt Lake City (K.J.W.); University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (M.B.C.); University of Florida, Gainesville (M.S.Z.); University of California, San Diego, La Jolla (J.Y.Z.); and Taussig Cancer Center and Lerner Research Institute (K.R.M.), Cleveland Clinic (J.P., L.W., K.R.M.), Cleveland.
To determine the incidence and impact of monopolar cautery use in a cohort of pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users....
Case series from a retrospective chart review and a systematic review of the literature....
Tertiary academic referral center....
CI patient charts from 2012 to 2021 were reviewed from a single pediatric hospital system to determine if monopolar cautery was used during a subsequent surgical procedure. In addition, a systematic r...
In total, 190 patients underwent a surgical procedure following cochlear implantation in a single pediatric hospital system. Fifteen patients (7.9%) and 17 distinct surgical procedures were identified...
The present study adds additional support to the notion that monopolar cautery does not necessarily injure CI functionality. While the most risk adverse strategy when planning a surgical procedure for...
In computer-assisted surgery, it is typically required to detect when the tool comes into contact with the patient. In activated electrosurgery, this is known as the...
Transaxillary endoscopic dual-plane breast augmentation is becoming increasingly mature. The intraoperative separation of the implant into the space is often performed using monopolar cautery. The use...
In this randomized controlled study, we enrolled patients (n = 78) who underwent breast augmentation in our hospital from January to October 2022. Participants were randomized with an intentional uneq...
A total of 51 patients in the harmonic scalpel group and 24 patients in the monopolar cautery group were analyzed. Overall, in comparison to the monopolar cautery group, the harmonic scalpel group sho...
Compared with monopolar cautery, harmonic scalpel usage in transaxillary endoscopic breast augmentation has evident advantages regarding postoperative drainage and patients' pain scores, making it an ...
We investigate the influence of scleral cautery during cataract surgery on limbal vascular density and remodeling using anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography (AS-OCTA). Twenty eyes...
To compare the risk of recurrent epistaxis between children treated with silver nitrate (SN) in the office or electrocautery (EC) in the operating room (OR)....
Patients aged 2-18 diagnosed with epistaxis (ICD R04.0) in 2018 and treated with SN or EC were retrospectively reviewed. Epistaxis laterality, history of nasal trauma, and personal or family history o...
Among 291 patients cauterized for epistaxis, 62 % (n = 181) received SN compared to 38 % (n = 110) who underwent EC. There was significantly higher risk of recurrence when treated with SN compared to ...
Among patients with epistaxis, risk of recurrence is significantly higher in those cauterized with SN compared to EC. Time to recurrence is not significantly different between cautery techniques....
To critically appraise the evidence on the efficacy and recanalization rates of permanent punctal occlusion via thermal or surgical means in managing dry eye disease (DED)....
In PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane databases, two authors systematically reviewed the literature for prospective studies on punctal cautery or surgical occlusion (excluding punctal plugs) for DED. The st...
Nine studies (all single-arm) had 150 subjects (96 females). Five studies were on thermal punctal cauterization, and four used surgical occlusion techniques. One hundred eighty puncta were operated fo...
Based on non-comparative studies, thermal or surgical punctal occlusion improves tear volume in DED with similar recanalization rates; however, randomized controlled trials are needed to ascertain the...
Anogenital warts (AGW) is one of the sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). Treatment modalities of AGW yield low clearance and recurrence rate, so that chemical ...
To investigate the efficacy of chemical cautery with TCA and electrosurgery in AGW based on clinical trials or case series....
The systematic review was reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) but not registered to the International Prospective Register of Systemati...
Thirteen studies were included in this systematic review, comprising seven articles on chemical cautery and six electrosurgery articles. The highest cure rate of chemical cautery with TCA was 94.1% wh...
Electrosurgery for AGW treatment had higher cure rate with lower recurrence rate compared to chemical cautery with TCA. Numerous adverse effects of electrosurgery were reported include bleeding and sc...
Choroid plexectomy was first performed around 1910. Later, the technique evolved into subtotal choroid plexus cauterization (CPC) but was largely abandoned following the invention of the ventriculoper...
The physiological functions of choroid plexus in neurogenesis and neuroimmunology and its role in diseases, such as AD and MS, should alert to possible as yet to be determined consequences. Studies, b...
The value of CPC for treatment of hydrocephalus in medically underserved areas should be remembered, yet when alternative treatment options are available, we cannot responsibly advocate against or for...
Endoscopic cauterization is an effective method for treating pyriform sinus fistula (PSF). However, these approaches sometimes result in a higher failure rate. We present an effective technique utiliz...
Retrospective study....
Tertiary referral center....
Retrospective case review of patients treated between March 2012 and June 2021 at our institution with descriptive statistical analysis....
A total of 126 patients with PSF were included in this study with a mean age of 14.7 years. There was no sex predilection. The majority of patients presented with a left-sided neck lesion (89.7%). Ten...
Endoscopic suture combined with chemocauterization is a safe and effective treatment of PSF. Surgery can be performed during the acute cervical inflammatory period without increased risk of complicati...
To assess patient factors to predict treatment success of Naseptin for recurrent paediatric epistaxis....
This prospective cohort study of paediatric patients referred to a tertiary paediatric otolaryngology clinic with recurrent epistaxis treated with Naseptin cream and education. Patients with red flag ...
125 of 210 patients on the waiting list met the inclusion criteria and were given a complete trial of Naseptin. 80.8% (n = 101) of patients found that the frequency and severity of epistaxis had reduc...
We found that Naseptin is a safe, well-tolerated treatment that should be trialled in most cases of recurrent paediatric epistaxis. Most children will benefit from it with complete epistaxis cessation...