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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a novel personalized surgical approach to the standard AT in children with small tonsils (ST). This will be accomplished by randomizing children with ST and OSA to one of these two treatments and comparing outcomes after 6 months. It is the investigators' central hypothesis that a personalized drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE)-directed surgical approach that uses existing procedures to address the specific fixed and dynamic anatomic features causing obstruction (ie, anatomic endotypes) in each child with ST will perform better than the currently recommended standard first line approach of AT. This novel approach may improve OSA outcomes and reduce the burden of unnecessary AT or secondary surgery for persistent OSA after an ineffective AT. To test this hypothesis, the investigators propose to study children aged 2-17 years with small tonsils and OSA.
The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness and optimization of various FDA approved products.
This is a prospective within-subjects repeated-measures study that will enroll 17 users 13 years or older implanted with a HiResolution Bionic Ear System.
This trial studies differences between a mindfulness and a gaming virtual reality (VR) experience as a means for preoperative anxiety management and postoperative pain management among patients after head and neck surgery. Investigators will assess differences in anxiety scores, pain scores, physiologic measures, and subjective patient experiences.
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) occurs at a high frequency in southern China, northern Africa, and Alaska, with a reported incidence of 30 cases per 100 000 in Guangdong Province. Endoscopic examination and biopsy are the main methods used for detection and diagnosis of NPC. Early NPC patients achieve favourable prognoses after concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy in compassion with advanced NPC patients. Here, the investigators focused on the utility of artificial intelligence to detect early NPC, which based on white light imaging (WLI) and Narrow-band imaging (NBI) nasoendoscopic examination. Having access to this unique population provides an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the effect of intelligent system on diverse nasopharyngeal lesions detection and develop a novel Computer-Aided Diagnosis System.
This trial studies an active virtual reality (VR) experience as a means for non-pharmacologic postoperative pain management among patients after head and neck surgery. Investigators will assess differences in pain scores, analgesic use, and subjective patient experiences between patients participating in a VR activity and patients participating in the same activity using a smartphone.
Congenital choanal atresia is an abnormality of the posterior nasal passages resulting in complete or partial obstruction of the nasal airways. It has an incidence of 1: 5000 to 8000 live births, with a female predominance. 41% - 72% occur in conjunction with non-syndromic facial abnormalities such as arched palate, cleft lip, and auricular deformities. About 4% present as a component of chromosomally-based syndromes such as (coloboma, heart defect, atresia choanae, retarded growth, genital abnormality, and ear abnormality" and Treacher Collins syndromes. Previous reports have described the ratio of bony to membranous choanal atresia as 9:1. However, a detailed review of computed tomography study combined with histopathological studies has shown mixed bony-membranous atresia in about 70% of cases and purely bony atresia in 30% of cases.