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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mariko Kasuga, Hidekane Yoshimura, Yutaka Takumi
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency, treatment, and outcomes of postoperative delayed-onset swelling around cochlear implants. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective, observational, nonrandomized group study. SETTING: Academic medical center. PATIENTS/INTERVENTIONS: Among 354 patients (516 ears) who underwent cochlear implantation (CI) at our hospital between May 2009 and October 2022, 329 (472 ears: 138 children [246 ears] and 191 adults [226 ears]) with a follow-up period of >3 months were included...
April 5, 2024: Otology & Neurotology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lee T Gettler, Jelena Jankovic-Rankovic, Rieti G Gengo, Geeta N Eick, Marcela Pfaff Nash, Ewoton Newton Arumah, Adan Mohammed Boru, Said Ahmed Ali, Samuel S Urlacher, Jerrold S Meyer, J Josh Snodgrass, Rahul C Oka
When armed conflict compels people to flee from their homelands, they embark on protracted journeys during which they experience wide ranging physical, social, and psychological challenges. Few studies have focused on refugee psychosocial and physiological profiles during the transitional phase of forced migration that often involves temporary sheltering. Transient refugees' experiences can vary substantially based on local socio-ecological conditions in temporary settlements, including the length of stay, living conditions, as well as the availability and accessibility of physical and social resources...
March 12, 2024: Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Kevin Varghese, Xiaofeng Yan, Fei Cao
Excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (ED) is a condition characterized by the repeated compulsion to pick at the skin, causing physical trauma and psychiatric distress. Patients often desire to cease skin-picking behavior but are unable to do so. Multiple treatment modalities are effective for ED, including naltrexone. Previous reports of naltrexone for ED were at a high dose of 50 mg. The efficacy of low-dose naltrexone (LDN) at 4.5 mg in managing ED has not been reported. We present a case of a 51-year-old female with ED who was evaluated in the pain clinic for fibromyalgia management...
March 2024: Curēus
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Nora I Ivanova, Dayana M Kyuchukova, Mihael E Tsalta-Mladenov, Darina K Georgieva, Silva P Andonova
Prosopagnosia, also referred to as "face blindness," is a type of visual agnosia characterized by a decreased capacity to recognize familiar faces with a preserved ability to identify individuals based on non-facial visual traits or voice. Prosopagnosia can be categorized as developmental (DP) or acquired (AP) owing to a variety of underlying conditions, including trauma, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, neuroinfections, and, less frequently, malignancies. Facial recognition is a complex process in which different neuronal networks are involved...
March 2024: Curēus
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Priyanka Bhat, Raman Sharma, J C Passey, Niyati Kumari
Tympanic plate fractures are uncommon injuries and carry the risk of external auditory canal stenosis. These injuries are often associated with fractures of adjacent bones like the mandible, maxilla, and temporal bone. Isolated bilateral tympanic bone fractures have rarely been reported. The most frequently advocated treatment for these injuries is surgical to prevent canal stenosis in the future. The effectiveness of non-operative management has been seldom reported. In the current case report, we present an uncommon injury with isolated bilateral tympanic plate fractures secondary to trauma to the mandible with no associated mandible or condylar fractures that were treated non-operatively...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Leslie R Elmore, Christopher Esper, Andrei I Gritsiuta, Jorge Lara-Gutierrez, Patrick Downs, Jon Henwood
BACKGROUND An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein, bypassing the capillary network. An AVM of the superficial temporal artery (STA) can occur after trauma, iatrogenic injury, infection, or spontaneously. Spontaneous, or iatrogenic, presentations of STA AVM are thought to be rare, with very few reported cases. Symptoms include local pain, headache, tinnitus, or paresthesia, in addition to a palpable mass associated with thrill on palpation. Options for diagnosis include intra-arterial angiography, doppler ultrasound, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), and computed tomography angiography (CTA)...
March 31, 2024: American Journal of Case Reports
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REVIEW
Prachi H Bhuptani, Yongkuan Zhang, Lauren Danzey, Aanandita Bali, Kirsten Langdon, Lindsay M Orchowski
BACKGROUND: Interpersonal trauma is a risk factor for a wide array of adverse mental health outcomes, including substance use. Research has begun investigating the role of shame in the intersection between substance use and interpersonal trauma. The current systematic review summarizes the existing literature documenting the relation among shame, substance use, and interpersonal trauma. METHOD: Articles were collected using a Boolean search strategy of terms related to interpersonal trauma, substance use, and shame across six databases...
March 6, 2024: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Navid Rashedi, Yifei Sun, Vikrant Vaze, Parikshit Shah, Ryan Halter, Jonathan T Elliott, Norman A Paradis
INTRODUCTION: Detection of occult hemorrhage (OH) before progression to clinically apparent changes in vital signs remains an important clinical problem in managing trauma patients. The resource-intensiveness associated with continuous clinical patient monitoring and rescue from frank shock makes accurate early detection and prediction with noninvasive measurement technology a desirable innovation. Despite significant efforts directed toward the development of innovative noninvasive diagnostics, the implementation and performance of the newest bedside technologies remain inadequate...
March 27, 2024: Military Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephen Raverty, Pádraig Duignan, Denise Greig, Jessica L Huggins, Kathy Burek Huntington, Michael Garner, John Calambokidis, Paul Cottrell, Kerri Danil, Dalin D'Alessandro, Deborah Duffield, Moe Flannery, Frances Md Gulland, Barbie Halaska, Dyanna M Lambourn, Taylor Lehnhart, Jorge Urbán R, Teri Rowles, James Rice, Kate Savage, Kristin Wilkinson, Justin Greenman, Justin Viezbicke, Brendan Cottrell, P Dawn Goley, Maggie Martinez, Deborah Fauquier
Beginning in December 2018, increased numbers of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) strandings were reported along the west coast of Mexico, the United States, and Canada, prompting declaration of a gray whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME) by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service. Although strandings declined in 2020 and 2021 from a peak in 2019, the UME is still ongoing as of fall 2023. Between 17 December 2018 and 31 December 2021, 503 animals stranded along the west coast of North America, with 226 strandings in Mexico, 71 in California, 12 in Oregon, 56 in Washington, 21 in British Columbia, and 117 in Alaska...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Issam Saliba, Sarah Alshehri, Isabelle Fournier, Nasser Altamami
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of endolymphatic duct blockage (EDB) on dizziness control in patients with a large vestibular aqueduct (LVA) and to evaluate its effect on hearing. STUDY DESIGN: This is a prospective nonrandomized study. SETTING: Five adults and one child with dizziness and five children with progressive hearing loss were referred to our tertiary centers. METHODS: The dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) and DHI-PC (dizziness handicap inventory-patient caregiver) questionnaires were used before and after surgery...
March 18, 2024: Audiology Research
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Glen J F Kemps, Douwe de Boer, Maud P M Tijssen, Dirk H P M Kunst, Jérôme J Waterval
INTRODUCTION: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulas are a rare phenomenon, that can lead to life-threatening complications if left untreated. Presenting as rhinorrhea or otorrhea, they can be difficult to diagnose due to admixture of other bodily fluids. Typically, CSF fistulas develop after trauma, but in rare instances, they can be diagnosed in patients with a neoplastic lesion. OBJECTIVE: To discuss several steps in diagnosing CSF fistulas. PATIENT: A fifty-year-old female with an intra-osseous temporal bone meningioma...
March 30, 2024: Heliyon
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Kareem Ibraheem, Omar H Salloum, Osama Hroub, Abd Al Rahman Herbawi, Maram Albandak, Hobaib Shawar, Sharif Bassal
This case report presents the unique clinical presentation of an 18-year-old female patient with an 8-year history of a progressively enlarging pulsatile mass in the left parieto-occipital region of her scalp. Remarkably, there was no history of trauma, headache, or other associated neurological deficits. Advanced imaging techniques, including computed tomography angiography and magnetic resonance imaging, revealed a vascular lesion consistent with an arteriovenous malformation beneath the scalp. Notably, the arteriovenous malformation's nidus was primarily supplied by branches of bilateral superficial temporal and occipital arteries, with a more pronounced involvement on the left side...
2024: SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anthony D Douglas, Thaddeus J Puzio, Patrick B Murphy, Gabriel B Kinnaman, Ashley D Meagher
BACKGROUND: Damage control surgery aims to control hemorrhage and contamination in the operating room (OR) with definitive management of injuries delayed until normal physiology is restored in the intensive care unit (ICU). There are limited studies evaluating the use of damage control thoracotomy (DCT) in trauma, and the best method of temporary closure is unclear. METHODS: A retrospective review of trauma patients at two level I trauma centers who underwent a thoracotomy operation was performed...
March 8, 2024: Injury
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bibian Borst, Tanja Jovanovic, Stacey L House, Steven E Bruce, Nathaniel G Harnett, Alyssa R Roeckner, Timothy D Ely, Lauren A M Lebois, Dmitri Young, Francesca L Beaudoin, Xinming An, Thomas C Neylan, Gari D Clifford, Sarah D Linnstaedt, Laura T Germine, Kenneth A Bollen, Scott L Rauch, John P Haran, Alan B Storrow, Christopher Lewandowski, Paul I Musey, Phyllis L Hendry, Sophia Sheikh, Christopher W Jones, Brittany E Punches, Lauren A Hudak, Jose L Pascual, Mark J Seamon, Elizabeth M Datner, Claire Pearson, David A Peak, Robert M Domeier, Niels K Rathlev, Brian J O'Neil, Paulina Sergot, Leon D Sanchez, Steven E Harte, Karestan C Koenen, Ronald C Kessler, Samuel A McLean, Kerry J Ressler, Jennifer S Stevens, Sanne J H van Rooij
BACKGROUND: Females are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than males. Impaired inhibition has been identified as mechanism for PTSD development, but studies on the potential sex differences of this neurobiological mechanism and how it relates to PTSD severity and progression are sparse. Here we examined sex differences in neural activation during response inhibition and PTSD following recent trauma. METHODS: Participants (N= 205, 138 female sex assigned at birth) were recruited from emergency departments within 72 hours of a traumatic event...
March 22, 2024: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mari Kira, Andrea Belgrade, Noor Saleem, Rouan Salim, Fiona Lee
Adolescent refugees confront a complex interplay of trauma arising from forced displacement, resettlement, and the challenges of transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Using photovoice methodology, this study engaged 14 Iraqi and Syrian adolescent refugees now residing in the United States with the aim to illuminate their well-being experiences. Our findings show that temporal continuities and discontinuities in adolescent refugees' lives contributed to their sense of well-being by helping satisfy their basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, relatedness, and safety...
March 22, 2024: Journal of Community Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siobhan Isles, Michael Kean, Joanna F Dipnall, Ben Beck
AIM: This observational study aimed to investigate temporal trends in transport-related injuries in New Zealand by mode of transport and explore whether specific population groups and localities have a relatively higher incidence of injury. These trends provide insight into changes in injury patterns from road trauma. METHODS: A retrospective study of hospitalised road trauma in New Zealand was conducted between 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2021. Data were obtained from the National Minimum Dataset of hospital admissions, and the New Zealand Trauma Registry (NZTR)...
March 22, 2024: New Zealand Medical Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Beshada Zerfu Woldegeorgis, Amanuel Yosef Gebrekidan, Gizachew Ambaw Kassie, Gedion Asnake Azeze, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Henok Berhanu Alemu, Mohammed Suleiman Obsa
Neonatal birth trauma, although it has steadily decreased in industrialized nations, constitutes a significant health burden in low-resource settings. Keeping with this, we sought to determine the pooled cumulative incidence (incidence proportion) of birth trauma and identify potential contributing factors in low and middle-income countries. Besides, we aimed to describe the temporal trend, clinical pattern, and immediate adverse neonatal outcomes of birth trauma. We searched articles published in the English language in the Excerpta Medica database, PubMed, Web of Science, Google, African Journals Online, Google Scholar, Scopus, and in the reference list of retrieved articles...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fatemeh Sanjar, David T Silliman, Ian J Johnson, Zayer Htut, Trent J Peacock, Samira F Thompson, Gregory R Dion, Md A Nahid, John F Decker, Kai P Leung
BACKGROUND: Considered the second largest and most diverse microbiome after the gut, the human oral ecosystem is complex with diverse and niche-specific microorganisms. Although evidence is growing for the importance of oral microbiome in supporting a healthy immune system and preventing local and systemic infections, the influence of craniomaxillofacial (CMF) trauma and routine reconstructive surgical treatments on community structure and function of oral resident microbes remains unknown...
March 21, 2024: Molecular Oral Microbiology
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Suwang Zheng, Tianli Fu, Jinlong Yan, Chunyue Zhu, Lu Li, Zhenyu Qian, Jiaojiao Lü, Yu Liu
BACKGROUND: Temporal interference (TI) stimulation, an innovative non-invasive brain stimulation technique, has the potential to activate neurons in deep brain regions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of repetitive TI stimulation targeting the lower limb motor control area (i.e., the M1 leg area) on lower limb motor function in healthy individuals, which could provide evidence for further translational application of non-invasive deep brain stimulation. METHODS: In this randomized, double-blinded, parallel-controlled trial, 46 healthy male adults were randomly divided into the TI or sham group...
March 20, 2024: Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mina Stefanovic, Keisuke Takano, Charlotte E Wittekind, Thomas Ehring
Background and objective: The current study aimed to investigate the within-day symptom dynamics in PTSD patients, specifically focusing on symptoms that most predict changes in other symptoms. The study included a baseline diagnostic assessment, followed by an assessment using the experience sampling method (ESM) via a smartphone. Method: Participants answered questions related to their PTSD symptoms four times per day for 15 consecutive days (compliance rate 75%). The clinical sample consisted of 48 treatment-seeking individuals: 44 with PTSD as a primary diagnosis, and four patients with subsyndromal PTSD, all of whom had not yet begun trauma-focused treatment...
2024: European Journal of Psychotraumatology
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