Objectives: To describe the case series of patients with CRSwNP under biological therapy in a tertiary hospital. Study Design: Retrospective observational study. Material and Methods: Patients with CRSwNP who started biological therapy between April 2023 and December 2024 were included. Patients were evaluated at weeks 0, 4 and 16. Therapeutic response was assessed according to the EPOS/EUFOREA 2023 criteria, u...
COVID-19 has led to an increase number of tracheotomized patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, whose consequences on voice, swallowing and high airway are poorly known in these patients. The objective of this project was to study them. The 37 COVID-19 patients, hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit, who had undergone tracheotomy and were subsequently decannulated, between March 2020 and November...
Objectives: Report and characterize the group of children diagnosed with coanal atresia at a terciary referral pediatric hospital during the last 13 years. Study design: Retrospective observational study of sixteen children with choanal atresia who underwent surgical intervention. Results: thirteen patients were female and three male. We identified nine bilateral cases and seven unilateral. Regarding the type o...
Objectives: Report the results of 3 years of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening (UNHS) at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), CHULC; identify cases of delayed auditory pathway maturation. Study design: Retrospective observational. Methods: UNHS data from NICU newborns, admitted for ≥ 5 days, during 3 years were retrieved and analyzed. NHS results were classified as following: (1) “pass” when both ears f...