This study aimed to evaluate hearing outcomes and device safety in a large, single-surgeon experience with the totally implantable active middle-ear implants.

This was a retrospective case series review of 116 patients with moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss undergoing implantation of active middle-ear implants.

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Impaired alveolar fluid clearance, determined in part by alveolar sodium transport, is associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Nasal sodium transport may reflect alveolar transport. The primary objective of this prospective, observational study was to determine if reduced nasal sodium transport, as measured by nasal potential…[Read more]

Injuries were more likely to occur in home zip codes.

There is a wide variety of functional tests and scales for the assessment of different aspects in the adaptation of amputees, but there is still no consensus on which are the most appropriate.

To describe the measures of correlation and association among three functional tests for…[Read more]

Curette and ultrasonic scaling increased the surface roughness in LDS-Glaze (p less then 0.05), Ti (p less then 0.01) and CoCr (p less then 0.001), however, surface roughness did not affect bacterial adhesion. Zr C and US had a higher bacterial adhesion percentage compared to LDS-Glaze C and US (p = 0.03). There were no differences between study…[Read more]

Due to the failure of antibiotic treatment and recurrence of infection in patients with

, this study was designed to find the possible cause of treatment failure and recurrence of the

infections in Ilam, Iran.

One hundred patients with specific symptoms of

infection were selected, and after taking a biopsy specimen,…[Read more]

In addition to strengthening the production and sale of substandard film supervision, farmers’ choice of film thickness should be included in village regulations and other rural grass-roots governance systems, especially in the mechanism design between agricultural farmland protective subsidies and the prevention of mulch film pollution, rather…[Read more]

Crateva unilocularis is naturally distributed in Southern China, which is an elite natural tree with high edible and medicinal value. In this study, whole chloroplast (cp) genome of Crateva unilocularis was assembled and characterized on the basis of Illumina pair-end sequencing data. The complete cp genome was 156,417 bp in length, containing a l…[Read more]

For women of reproductive age, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is not a rare heterogeneous endocrine disorder and metabolic dysfunction. Menstrual problems, hyperandrogenism, polycystic ovary (PCO) and infertility often affect these women, and they are also prone to metabolic syndrome (MS) and insulin resistance (IR). As an isoquinoline alkaloid,…[Read more]

Serum lipids have been reported as prognosticators for malignancies, including rectal cancer (RC). Yet, their value in predicting the response of RC to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) remains unknown. This study aimed to assess the predictive abilities of serum lipids for a bad response, and to build a serum lipid-based prediction…[Read more]