ALLMedicine™ Tonsillitis Center

Apr 29th, 2022 - To compare the application of indications, demographics, surgical and haemostatic techniques in tonsil surgery in three countries. Non-randomised, prospective, observational cohort. All patients registered in the National Tonsil Surgery Quality Re...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - Adenotonsillectomy is the most common surgical intervention for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) or recurrent tonsillitis. The Paediatric Throat Disorder Quality of Life Outcome (T14) questionnaire is a validated tool completed by parents to compare...

Apr 22nd, 2022 - Adenotonsillectomy is commonly performed for recurrent tonsillitis and obstructive sleep apnoea. These conditions may improve with age. The COVID-19 pandemic led to all UK elective surgery being suspended. This study aimed to determine whether del...

Apr 16th, 2022 - It has been suggested that after partial tonsillectomy, referred here as tonsillotomy (TT), the remaining tonsillar tissue might be altered, leading to scarring or chronic tonsillitis. The objectives were to compare the histology of regrown tonsil...

Apr 15th, 2022 - Paediatric tonsillar hyperplasia (TH) is associated with a spectrum of presentations ranging from recurrent tonsillitis (RT) to sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The underlying pathogenesis of tonsillar hyperplasia remains poorly understood. Previ...

Jan 27th, 2022 - Goal setting The aim of this work is to investigate the expression of the bitter taste receptors in p16-positive and negative oropharyngeal carcinomas (in comparison to healthy, local tissue). The hypothesis is that oropharyngeal carcinomas expres...

Oct 7th, 2021 - Comprehensive outpatient treatment was based on standard clinical guidelines, and symptomatic treatment was performed. On the first day of diagnosis, patients were prescribed complex antibacterial therapy on the basis of possible causative agents....

Apr 2nd, 2021 - Rationale Surgical removal of palatal tonsils is among the most common ear, nose and throat operations in adults in Finland. The vast majority of these operations are done for recurrent and chronic tonsillitis. Internationally accepted guidelines ...

Jul 22nd, 2020 - It is an observational, cross-sectional, multicenter, national clinical study . The study was carried out from January 2018 to August 2018 in Tunisian population involving 57 primary care outpatient centers and 6 emergency departments from the 24 ...

Apr 16th, 2019 - Background: Tonsils and adenoids comprise the main bulk of Waldeyer's ring, which is commonly enlarged in childhood, until the age of 11. Obstructive sleep apnea caused by adenotonsillar hypertrophy is a major contributing factor to cardiorespirat...

Sep 24th, 2021 - Diagnostic accuracy of confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) was too low to identify wheat sensitivities in non-celiac irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients, according to a prospective multicenter study. The method accurately detected wheat sensit...

Dec 18th, 2020 - The use of antibiotics to treat a sore throat remains contentious, with guidelines from around the world providing contradictory advice. This topic generated a lively debate at the annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious D...

Sep 3rd, 2020 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved somapacitan (Sogroya, Novo Nordisk) for the replacement of endogenous growth hormone in adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD).  Somapacitan is a human growth hormone analog. It is admini...

Nov 6th, 2019 - Sore throats are among the more commonly reported symptoms. Viruses are responsible for 85%-95% of sore throats in adults, 70% in children aged 5-16 years, and 95% in children younger than 5 years. Although most cases resolve spontaneously, it is ...

Nov 6th, 2018 - Seven out of eight children in the UK who undergo tonsillectomy are unlikely to benefit from the surgery, a study found. However, many children who could benefit from having their tonsils removed are not having the surgical procedure, said researc...