To assess whether 3-dimensional (3D) volumetrics can be used to track and evaluate postoperative course of patients treated with endoscopic suturectomy for nonsyndromic sagittal synostosis, we compare...
This study provides a systematic review on cosmetic satisfaction and other patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) of patients who underwent surgical treatment of SSC....
A systematic review of all articles published from inception to 1 June 2022 was performed. Articles were included if they reported on subjective assessment of cosmetic satisfaction or other PROMs by p...
Twelve articles, describing 724 surgical treatments of SSC, met the inclusion criteria. Cosmetic satisfaction was evaluated in the following ways: 1) use of the VAS score, binary questions or a 5-poin...
This systematic review illuminates that there is a wide variation in outcomes for evaluating cosmetic satisfaction and other PROMs of patients who underwent surgical treatment of SSC, suggesting that ...
A literature gap exists comparing whole head shape outcome following correction of sagittal craniosynostosis. The objective of this multicenter study was to provide an analysis of long-term results fo...
Pre- and postoperative 3D stereophotogrammetric images were collected from patients who underwent craniosynostosis surgery. Procedures were divided among institutions as follows: spring-assisted strip...
Patients in the spring-assisted strip craniectomy group showed normalization of frontal bossing and skull height compared with age-matched controls, whereas patients undergoing wide-strip craniectomy ...
This large, retrospective, multicenter study illustrated whole head shape outcomes from three different craniectomy procedures. Although each procedure showed some differences in loci of primary corre...
In 2017, we adopted the use of triamcinolone/epinephrine (TAC/Epi) scalp injection and later added tranexamic acid (TXA) in open sagittal synostosis surgery. We believe that this reduced blood loss an...
A total of 107 consecutive patients operated for sagittal synostosis aged <4 months from 2007 to 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. We collected demographics [age, sex, weight at surgery, and length ...
There were 3 groups: 1/4% bupivacaine/epinephrine (N=64), TAC/Epi (N=13), and TAC/Epi with TXA bolus/infusion intraoperatively (N=30). Groups receiving TAC/Epi or TAC/Epi with TXA had lower mean EBL (...
Use of TAC/Epi alone reduced EBL, LOS, Operating Room time, and improved laboratory values postoperatively in open sagittal synostosis surgery. Addition of TXA further improved operative time and LOS....
Cranial bones constitute a protective shield for the vulnerable brain tissue, bound together as a rigid entity by unique immovable joints known as sutures. Cranial sutures serve as major growth centre...
The purpose of this study is to determine whether patients with unoperated craniosynostosis have different frontal sinus pneumatization than unaffected controls....
Retrospective review was performed between 2009 and 2020 of previously unoperated patients with craniosynostosis older than 5 years old at first presentation to our institution. Total frontal sinus vo...
Study group included nine patients, 5-39 years old, median age 7 years. Frontal sinus pneumatization was absent in 12% of the normal 7-year-old controls, while frontal sinus pneumatization was absent ...
Frontal sinus pneumatization is suppressed in unreleased craniosynostosis and may be an intracranial space conservation phenomenon. This absent frontal sinus can have implications in future frontal re...
Scaphocephaly is the commonest form of craniosynostosis with a varied presentation consisting of many morphological components and a range of possible surgical interventions. However, with regard to e...
In 1988, Renier and Marchac asserted that children with craniosynostosis who undergo cranial vault remodeling (CVR) after 12 months of age experience delayed neurocognitive development compared to chi...
Patients with nonsyndromic single-suture craniosynostosis who underwent CVR between 2009 and 2020 at Michigan Medicine were included ( n = 227). Sociodemographic and clinical variables were documented...
The early and late groups contained 157 patients and 70 patients, respectively. Compared to the early group, the late group contained a larger proportion of patients who identified as non-White ( P = ...
This study demonstrates that socioeconomic disadvantages and comorbid conditions are prevalent among patients who undergo delayed CVR and may represent a selection bias toward delayed neurocognitive d...
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Carbonated calcium phosphate (CCP) cement is an alloplastic material which has been increasingly utilized for cranioplasty reconstruction; however, there is a paucity of data investigating its use in ...
Patients with syndromic craniosynostosis undergoing cranioplasty with CCP cement from 2009 to 2022 were retrospectively reviewed for prior medical and surgical history, cranioplasty size, cement usage...
Twenty-one patients were included. Age at surgery was 16.2 ± 2.8 years, forehead cranioplasty area was 135 ± 112 cm...
Our results suggest that aesthetic forehead ratings improve after CCP contouring cranioplasty and that the improvement is sustained in medium-term follow-up. Complications were uncommon, suggesting th...
Caffeine consumption is common during pregnancy, but published associations with birth defects are mixed. We updated estimates of associations between prepregnancy caffeine consumption and 48 specific...
NBDPS was a large population-based case-control study conducted in 10 U.S. states. We categorized self-reported total dietary caffeine consumption (mg/day) from coffee, tea, soda, and chocolate as: <1...
Our analysis included 30,285 case and 11,502 control children, with mothers of 52% and 54%, respectively, reporting consuming <100 mg caffeine, and 11% of mothers of both cases and controls reported c...
Given the large number of estimates generated, some of the statistically significant results may be due to chance and thus the weakly increased aORs should be interpreted cautiously. This study suppor...
