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"name": "Comment diagnostique-t-on l'infection par le virus Junin ?",
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"name": "La fièvre est-elle un symptôme courant du virus Junin ?",
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"name": "La transfusion sanguine est-elle utilisée dans le traitement ?",
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"name": "Les complications surviennent-elles souvent ?",
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"name": "Les complications sont-elles plus fréquentes chez certains groupes ?",
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"text": "Oui, les personnes immunodéprimées sont plus à risque de complications sévères."
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"@type": "Question",
"name": "Comment gérer les complications du virus Junin ?",
"position": 25,
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"text": "La gestion des complications nécessite des soins médicaux intensifs et un suivi approprié."
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"@type": "Question",
"name": "Quels sont les principaux facteurs de risque pour le virus Junin ?",
"position": 26,
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"text": "Les facteurs incluent l'exposition aux rongeurs et le travail en zones endémiques."
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"@type": "Question",
"name": "Les agriculteurs sont-ils à risque d'infection par le virus Junin ?",
"position": 27,
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"text": "Oui, les agriculteurs travaillant dans des zones infestées par des rongeurs sont à risque."
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"@type": "Question",
"name": "Les personnes immunodéprimées sont-elles plus vulnérables ?",
"position": 28,
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"text": "Oui, elles présentent un risque accru de développer des formes graves de la maladie."
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"@type": "Question",
"name": "Le sexe influence-t-il le risque d'infection par le virus Junin ?",
"position": 29,
"acceptedAnswer": {
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"text": "Des études montrent que le risque peut varier selon le sexe, mais les raisons ne sont pas claires."
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"name": "Les personnes vivant en milieu urbain sont-elles à risque ?",
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Hearing loss in AIED tends to be progressive and bilateral, but up to 40% can present as sudden hearing loss and one-third can present unilaterally. HSP-70 serology may help with diagnosis and may pre...
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Explore the effects of hearing loss on social life and identify residual social life deficits that remain after cochlear implantation....
Retrospective review of prospectively obtained data....
Tertiary care adult neurotology center....
Adults between the ages of 35 and 83 years were included with either normal hearing (NH) or a cochlear implant (CI)....
CI and non-CI-specific quality-of-life (QOL) surveys focused on social and overall QOL....
(1) The difference in QOL survey responses between NH and CI participants. (2) The relationship between CI-specific global and social QOL responses and non-CI-specific social QOL responses in CI users...
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Evaluate barriers that deter adult patients from following through with cochlear implantation....
Retrospective chart review and phone survey....
Single tertiary referral center....
Between January 2019 and August 2021, 113 patients, without a previous cochlear implant (CI), were determined to be candidates for cochlear implantation. Thirty-eight (33.6%) patients deferred cochlea...
None....
Demographic, socioeconomic, otologic history, and comorbidity factors associated with deferment of cochlear implantation. Patient survey assessment of factors that had the greatest impact, rated on a ...
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To determine the key image anatomical parameters that are relevant to cochlear implantation (CI) using temporal bone high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans and to identify age group differen...
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Based on preoperative imaging analysis at different ages, middle ear development was stable at 5 months of age, allowing early CI in infancy with severe to severe hearing loss at this age. These data ...
Evaluate the rate of preserved vestibular function in pediatric cochlear implant surgery....
Retrospective case review....
Pre- and post-operative vestibular tests were compared in children who underwent cochlear implantation at a tertiary level pediatric hospital over a 4-year period....
Data from 59 implanted ears in 44 children was included. Median age was 2.8 years at initial testing (range 7 months - 21 years) with 1:1 male/female ratio. Implant surgeries were 26 unilateral, 13 bi...
Preservation rates of vestibular function following cochlear implant surgery were higher in this cohort than what has been reported in many earlier studies. Contemporary, less traumatic electrodes and...
4, Case Series Laryngoscope, 134:1913-1918, 2024....
Cochlear ossification (CO) after meningitis can cause profound sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Cochlear implantation (CI) is the ideal treatment strategy for CO....
To explore the strategy for CI in patients with CO after meningitis....
In this retrospective study, the medical records of patients diagnosed with profound SNHL due to CO after meningitis and who underwent CI in our department between September 2010 and September 2021 we...
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Preoperative temporal bone HRCT and MRI are essential for determining whether a patient is suitable for CI and surgical planning. A false-negative diagnosis is possible when diagnosing CO, but combine...
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Retrospective database review (January 2000-May 2017)....
Single tertiary hospital....
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Retrospective/cohort study....
Tertiary healthcare center....
Forty-nine adult patients (52 devices) were implanted between October 2017 and December 2019, with the following exclusion criteria: <18 years of age, medical/surgical failures, and lack of English-la...
Diagnostic....
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To assess the distance burden for access to cochlear implant (CI)-related services and to assess whether socioeconomic disadvantage or level of education and occupation influenced uptake of CIs....
Retrospective case review....
A CI services provider operating across multiple centers....
All patients undergoing CI surgery in a 2-year period between March 2018 and February 2020....
Diagnosis of hearing loss, CI surgery, and subsequent habilitation and mapping....
Distance traveled by patients to their audiological diagnostic, CI surgery hospital, and habilitation sites; subjects' index of relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD) and index of e...
n = 201 children and n = 623 adults. There was a significant difference across IRSAD domains for children (p < 0.0001) and adults (p < 0.0001), and IEO in children (p = 0.015) and adults (p < 0.0001) ...
The burden of distance for access to CI in Australia is significant for the upper quartile who may not live within the large city centers. Greater consideration needs to be given regarding barriers to...