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Research Articles (Otorhinolaryngology)
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(AOSIS, 2023-10-30)BACKGROUND : Allergic rhinitis (AR) has a significant impact on the community as a whole with regard to quality of life and its relationship to allergic multi-morbidities. Appropriate diagnosis, treatment and review of ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-10)INTRODUCTION : Post-adenotonsillectomy pain is often severe, requiring substantial analgesia in the first 48–72 h. This pain is not only distressing to the patient and his or her parents, but often reflects poorly on an ...
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(Elsevier, 2022)Precision medicine is the personalization of medicine to suit a specific group of people or even an individual patient, based on genetic or molecular profiling. This can be done using genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic ...
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(Wiley Open Access, 2022-10)BACKGROUND : DFNB28, a recessively inherited nonsyndromic form of deafness in humans, is caused by mutations in the TRIOBP gene (MIM #609761) on chromosome 22q13. Its protein TRIOBP helps to tightly bundle F-actin filaments, ...
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(SpringerOpen, 2022-01-28)BACKGROUND : The latest international trends in healthcare put more emphasis on patients’ perspectives in reporting success in surgical procedures. A holistic approach in measuring surgical outcomes, defined as global ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-01)No abstract available.
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(MDPI, 2021-02-15)MYO7A gene encodes unconventional myosin VIIA, which, when mutated, causes a phenotypic spectrum ranging from recessive hearing loss DFNB2 to deaf-blindness, Usher Type 1B (USH1B). MYO7A mutations are reported in nine DFNB2 ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-07)Chronic rhinitis is a troublesome condition for sufferers. It is tempting to label all patients with chronic nasal symptoms as having allergic rhinitis (AR), but many such patients have other causes of chronic rhinitis ...
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(Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018-09)Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common childhood illnesses. While many children experience sporadic AOM episode, an important group suffer from recurrent AOM (rAOM), defined as three or more episodes in six ...
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(Elsevier, 2017-06)Hearing loss is the most common sensorineural disorder worldwide and is associated with more than 1000 mutations in more than 90 genes. While mutations in genes such as GJB2 (gap-junction protein β 2) and GJB6 (gap-junction ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-01)A series of two-page advertisements have appeared in the September and November 2016 issues of the SAMJ, entitled ‘da Vinci Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) is a minimally invasive alternative to open surgery and full-dose ...
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(Springer, 2016-08)Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in humans with causative variants in over 140 genes. With few exceptions, however, the population-specific distribution for many of the identified variants/genes is ...
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(Media 24, 2015-06)Although allergies and dizziness are very common, little is known of their co-existence and relationship to each other. Allergy associated dizziness (AAD) refers to vertigo and disequilibrium.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-06)There are limited data on grading of parotid gland mass, and currently no bedside clinical grading system is available. Parotid enlargement is common in patients with HIV/AIDS, and the size of the gland can change depending ...
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Blood otorrhea : blood stained sweaty ear discharges : Hematohidrosis; four case series (2001-2013) (Elsevier, 2014-03)Hematohidrosis/hematidrosis/hemidrosis is a rare clinical condition in which human being sweats blood under condition of extreme physical or emotional stress [1. Jerajai HR, Bhagyashri Jaju, Phiske MM, and Nitin Lade. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-07)BACKGROUND. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence of HIV infection. According to recent census statistics, 5.6 million people in South Africa (SA) are HIV-positive, the highest number of infected individuals ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-09)Limited literature is available on the epidemiology and genetics of otosclerosis in South African blacks, among whom it is extremely rare. We undertook this study because we had documented and surgically confirmed cases ...