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Tracheal Surgery - a 10-year Center Experience

Background: Tracheal surgery is a specialized field in which many disciplines work jointly due to the variety of indications and the extended topography. The main indications for surgery include inflammatory (generally post-intubation), congenital or post-traumatic stenoses, benign or malignant neoplasms and tracheal lacerations, whether iatrogenic or traumatic. The purpose of this study is to review the manage...

Identification of the bacterial pathogens in children with otitis media: a stud...

Understanding the bacterial etiology of otitis media (OM) is important when designing and evaluating the best course of treatment. This study analyzed middle ear fluid (MEF) and nasopharynx (NP) samples collected from 49 children with OM undergoing myringotomy in the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga. A correlation between species in the NP and MEF was observed following pathogen detection by culture an...

Pharyngolaryngeal reflux disease - Can symptoms predict endoscopic findings?

Aim: to correlate the severity of symptoms with pharyngolaryngeal endoscopic findings in individuals diagnosed with pharyngolaryngeal reflux disease (PLRD). Design of the study: unicentric, observational and prospective study. Material and Methods: 109 adults attended the ENT and Gastroenterology consultation at Hospital de Braga between April and October 2019 with suspected symptoms of PLRD. Through the applic...

A Security Monitoring Framework for Mobile Devices

Quite often, organizations are confronted with the burden of managing mobile device assets, requiring control over installed applications, security, usage profiles or customization options. From this perspective, the emergence of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has aggravated the situation, making it difficult to achieve an adequate balance between corporate regulations, freedom of usage and device heter...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the cavernous sinus, Tolosa-Hunt syndrome and facia...

Clinical case: the authors present a case of a 51-year-old woman with a history of right palpebral ptosis and binocular vertical diplopia. The initial imaging study showed a nonspecific focal increase of the right lateral wall of cavernous sinus. Laboratorial investigation and electromyographic analysis were normal. Symptoms were promptly controlled with high doses of steroid therapy. One year later, during wit...

Intracranial infection due to otitis media with a tegmen defect: Surgical approach

Objectives: To report the experience of our department in the surgical approach of the patients admitted between 2012 and 2018 for intracranial infection of otogenic etiology, in the context of a tegmen defect. Study Design: Retrospective, Case Series Material and Methods: Pre-existing otological pathology, intracranial complication, surgical approach and its timing, materials used to correct the defect, as wel...

A proposed bidirectional three-level DC-DC power converter for applications in ...

The integration of renewable energy sources (RES), energy storage systems (ESS), and electric mobility into smart grids requires the use of DC-DC back-end power converters for adjusting voltage levels. Although a DC-DC converter applied for RES only operates in unidirectional mode, when applied to ESS or EM, the bidirectional mode is a fundamental requisite for exchanging power with the electrical power grid. I...

Cremação de cadáveres: considerações a propósito da eventual perda definitiva d...

Otoplasty effect in health and quality of life of children

Purpose: Evaluate the effect of otoplasty in health and quality of life of children. Methods: Coorte Study that included children submitted to primary otoplasty in our Department. The questionnaire Glasgow Children´s Benefit Inventory (GCBI) was applied to their parents. Variables analyzed were divided in preoperative (psychosocial experiences and surgical motivation), GCBI (score and subscores) and postoperati...

Agriculture in NW Iberia during the Bronze Age: a review of archaeobotanical data

The wide and diverse array of palaeoenvironmental studies that were carried out in Northwestern Iberia indicate that the Bronze Age corresponds to a phase of great landscape changes. Strong deforestation and erosion episodes are key-features and they are usually assumed to be anthropogenic. The archaeological and archaeobotanical records demonstrate that these trends are coincident with modi!cations on settleme...