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Filter by:Analyze the effect of SOVTE (Semi-occluded Vocal Tract Exercise), with high resistance tube, on the velopharyngeal mechanism, for speech rehabilitation of twelve patients with cleft palate with vocal alterations, after four weeks. The study was developed in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. The hypothesis of the study is that after four weeks of exclusive therapy with exercise it will be improvement in the voice of patients with cleft palate.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether dietary cholic acid therapy benefits people with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) by leading to an increase in plasma cholesterol and reduction in harmful cholesterol precursors. SLOS participants will be treated with dietary cholic acid for 8 weeks and plasma cholesterol and cholesterol precursor metabolites will be measured.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the change of the optic nerve sheath diameter according to the change of the neck position in pediatric patients undergoing palatoplasty.
Cleft palate (CP) is a common congenital malformation, with an incidence ranging from 0.1 to 1.1 per 1000 births depending on the population group (liau et al, 2010). Early surgery is necessary to reduce phonation and feeding difficulties and reduce complications such as frequent sinusitis and other respiratory tract infections (Takemura et al., 2002). CP repair is painful, necessitating high doses of intravenous (I.V.) opioids. Therefore, the risk of postoperative respiratory depression and airway obstruction is important, and continuous monitoring is required during the initial 48h postoperatively (Roulleau et al, 2003). Maxillary nerve block using the suprazygomatic approach is used in children since it presents a lower rate of complications (Captier et al, 2009). By this way, one can reach the nerve as it exits the skull at the foramen rotundum within the pterygopalatine fossa, before the location where its nervous branches innervate the palate (Prigge et al, 2014). This simple, reliable and almost risk-free approach can yield an effective and prolonged anesthesia with a clear decreased use of morphine agents during and after cleft lip-palate surgery in small children (Mesnil et al, 2010). The nerve block must be bilateral. The local anesthetic (LA) is directly injected in the middle part of the fossa at a distance from the foramen rotundum to avoid any trauma to the nerve or vascular injury, as soon as the tip of the needle has crossed the temporal muscle (Binet et al, 2015). Various adjuvants to local anesthetics to increase the duration of block are described in the literature and used in the daily clinical practice. Dexmedetomidine is a selective alpha 2 (α2) adrenergic agonist with both analgesic and sedative properties. Animal studies showed that perineural dexmedetomidine added to bupivacaine or ropivacaine prolongs the duration of sensory and motor block (Brummett et al, 2011). Other clinical studies investigated the use of dexmedetomidine in patients undergoing ulnar nerve, axillary brachial and greater palatine nerve blocks, showed faster onset time and longer duration of block (Marhofer et al, 2013/ Esmaoglu et al, 2010& Obayah et al, 2010).
The fact that still exist is which method for repairing of secondary cleft palatal fistula is the best. This study will have shown whether using of Acellular dermal Matrix decreased the fistula formation versus using Conchal Cartilage during secondary fistula. Among studies that published, they have not consensus for using acellular dermal matrix. Most of the questions are about cost effectiveness, time that surgery and rehabilitation need and patient risk ( risk of transmission disease from other human tissue )
A cleft deformity of the lip and/or palate is one of the commonest major birth defects. Primary surgery of cleft palates (CP) varies according to the different surgical teams. Its peculiarity lies in the numerous care management protocols proposed according to the surgical techniques used, operating time (between M3 and M18 of life), anesthetic technique and postoperative management. This surgery must be associated to a specific care management because of potential associated complications, especially the risk of obstruction of the upper respiratory tract and respiratory distress majored by the use of morphine anesthetics during and after surgery. Adequate postoperative analgesia in children is a vital part of perioperative care. Regional block given preoperatively in combination with general anesthesia (GA) provides good preemptive analgesia. It is associated with perioperative hemodynamic stability, rapid and complete recovery and reduced analgesic requirement in the postoperative period. CP repair is painful, necessitating high doses of intravenous (IV) opioids. Therefore, the risk of postoperative respiratory depression and airway obstruction is important, and continuous monitoring is required during the initial 24-h postoperative period. Cleft palate surgery is not only painful, but may also compromise the airway, particularly in children with craniofacial syndromes. Opiate analgesia has the potential to further compromise the airway, whereas bilateral maxillary nerve block can provide analgesia without the risk of respiratory depression in these vulnerable patients. Bilateral maxillary nerve block is performed using a suprazygomatic approach and is based on a computer tomography study. The nerve supply to the hard and soft palate is from the greater and lesser palatine nerves passing through the sphenopalatine ganglion. The maxillary nerve (MN) provides sensory innervation of the anterior and posterior palate, the upper dental arch, the maxillary sinus, and the posterior nasal cavity. Maxillary nerve block (MNB) through the infrazygomatic route, used for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in adults, permits anesthesia of the entire palatine territory. However, this nerve block has led to complications such as orbital puncture, intracranial injection, maxillary artery puncture, or posterior pharyngeal wall injury.
Cell therapy appears to be an alternative to treat bone defects. Scientific advances have shown in animal models and in humans that mesenchymal stem cells were good candidates to support cellular bone regeneration after transplantation. However, their collection requires invasive sampling usually bone marrow. A new candidate stem cells able to stimulate bone regeneration has recently been identified in the nasal cavity, these cells are called "ecto-mesenchymal" cells. These stem cells have very similar biological characteristics of mesenchymal stem cells of bone marrow. They exhibit a high mitogenic activity and hold great potential for differentiation into osteoblast lineage. Given their properties and their ease of access within the nasal cavity, ecto-mesenchymal stem cells offer new prospects for cell therapy targeting bone involvement. In this context, the ecto-mesenchymal stem cells represent a nasal bone reconstruction interesting alternative in particular in indication of the cleft. They are directly and easily accessible in these children when conventional surgical reconstruction. The investigators propose in this study to validate a production method of stem cell called "ecto-mesenchymal" isolated from a biopsy of the nasal cavity of children with cleft lip and palate to be able to soon propose cell therapy innovative in this indication.
In cleft surgery there is no current general agreement on the treatment strategy of patients with the Pierre Robin Sequence. The timing of surgery and the surgical approach depends on the treating physician or the hospital facility. Literature regarding peri- and postoperative complications in the target population are lacking. The investigators aim to retrospectively review the charts of all cleft patients, both PRS and non-PRS, treated with an adapted Furlow palatoplasty between 01/01/2011 and 31/08/2015. The incidence of peri- and postoperative complications, with a specific focus on respiratory complications, will be examined. The value of demographic, surgical and postoperative parameters will be examined as potential risk factors for the development of complications.
This is a pilot study to determine if an audit and feedback intervention decreases complication rates after cleft palate surgery.
Randomized study evaluating the role of tranexamic acid in reducing intraoperative bleeding in palatoplasty.