Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Laboratory of Molecular RNA Virology and Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Electronic address: miccjh@nus.edu.sg.
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Antiviral Research, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano Turin, Italy.
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Antiviral Research, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano Turin, Italy.
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Antiviral Research, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano Turin, Italy.
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Antiviral Research, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano Turin, Italy. Electronic address: david.lembo@unito.it.
Animal Infectious Disease Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, PR China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225009, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
Trigeminal neuralgia causes excruciating pain in patients. Microvascular decompression is indicated for drug-resistant s trigeminal neuralgia. Unlike facial spasms, any part of the nerve can be the cu...
To assess the utility of intraoperative bulbocavernosus reflex (BCR) monitoring in posterior lumbar fusion surgery....
We retrospectively evaluated 153 patients undergoing posterior lumbar fusion with intraoperative BCR monitoring. Voiding function was assessed at discharge and two follow-ups....
BCR was preserved in 151 patients and completely disappeared in two patients at the end of surgery. For patients in whom BCR was preserved, voiding difficulties at discharge and 1-month and 6-month fo...
BCR had low sensitivity for voiding dysfunction at discharge, but had high accuracy at 6-month follow-up examinations. BCR loss was associated with new voiding dysfunction....
Intraoperative BCR monitoring is a potentially useful tool for enhancing safety during posterior lumbar fusion by predicting postoperative voiding dysfunction....
The accurate detection of parathyroid glands (PGs) during surgery is of great significance in thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy, which protects the function of normal PGs to prevent postoperative hy...
Mapping higher-order cognitive functions during awake brain surgery is important for cognitive preservation which is related to postoperative quality of life. A systematic review from 2018 about neuro...
We replicated the systematic search of the study from 2018 in PubMed and Embase from February 2017 to November 2023, yielding 5130 potentially relevant articles. We used the artificial machine learnin...
Comparable to the previous study of 2018, the majority of studies (90.4%) reported tests for assessing language functions (Ruis, J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 40(10):1081-1104, 218). Nevertheless, an increa...
Language remains the most extensively tested cognitive domain. However, a broader range of tests are now implemented during awake craniotomy and there are (new developed) tests which received more att...
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is the third most common endocrine disease. With parathyroidectomy, a cure rate of over 95% at initial surgery is reported. Localization of the abnormal parathyroid ...
A retrospective database analysis of all minimally invasive operations with IOPTH for PHPT and positive concordant localization in ultrasound (US) and...
In total, 198 patients were included in the study. The sensitivity of US, MIBI and PET-CT was 96%, 94% and 100%, respectively. Positive predictive value was 88%, 89% and 94% with US, MIBI and PET-CT, ...
Discontinuing IOPTH significantly increases the persistence rate by a factor of 7.5 in patients with concordantly localized adenoma. Therefore, IOPTH appears to remain necessary even for this group of...
The removal of vestibular schwannomas carries a risk of facial palsy. This study aims to evaluate the usefulness and technical aspects of intraoperative monitoring (IOM) for the facial nerve. A total ...
We herein report a rare case of a patient with hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) who presented with recurrent metastasis in the mesenteric lymph node of a transplanted jejunum. Removal of t...
Intraoperative bulbocavernosus reflex (BCR) monitoring is more difficult in females than in males. This study was designed to compare the feasibility of transurethral electrical stimulation BCR (tu-BC...
Twenty-four females were included. For stimulation in c-BCR monitoring, a pair of surface electrodes was placed on the genitals (cathode/anode: clitoris/adjacent labium). For stimulation in tu-BCR mon...
There was no postoperative urinary tract injury associated with urethral catheter insertion for tu-BCR. Tu-BCR monitoring had a significantly higher success rate of baseline recording than c-BCR monit...
Our data indicate that tu-BCR monitoring improved the success rate of baseline recording and specificity during spine surgery in females....
Tu-BCR monitoring was more reliable than c-BCR monitoring during spine surgery in females....
Intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM) of the vagus and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) enables prediction of postoperative nerve function. The underlying mechanism for loss of signal (LOS) in a visua...
A prospective study of consecutive patients undergoing thyroidectomy was performed with intermittent IONM using the NIM Vital nerve monitoring system. The ipsilateral vagus and RLN was stimulated, and...
A total of 100 consecutive patients undergoing thyroidectomy were studied with 126 RLN at risk. The overall rate of LOS was 4.0%. Cases without LOS demonstrated a highly significant vagus nerve median...
A significant reduction in vagus nerve EMG amplitude at medialisation of the thyroid and the end of case compared to baseline indicates that stretch injury or traction forces during thyroid mobilisati...
The aim of this systematic review was to find the optimal stimulation parameters for muscle recorded transcranial electrical stimulation motor evoked potential (mTc-MEP) and D-wave monitoring during s...
A PRISMA systematic search in Medline and EMBASE and a QUADAS-2 quality evaluation was performed to identify studies that compared stimulation parameters consisting of stimulation location, number of ...
Ten studies that compared stimulation parameters for performing mTc-MEP monitoring (stimulation location n = 4, number of pulses n = 2, pulse duration n = 1, interstimulus interval n = 4, DTS n = 1, R...
Few studies examined the optimal stimulation parameters for monitoring mTc-MEPs and no studies were included for D-wave monitoring. There is a need for prospective research to investigate the optimal ...
For mTc-MEP monitoring, a table is provided in which the recommended stimulation parameters are stated....
