ALLMedicine™ Cleft Palate Center

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Hereditary spastic paraplegia-81 is a recently identified, rare autosomal recessive disease, caused due to biallelic pathogenic variants in the SELENOI gene, with only two families reported to date. The features documented in the two previous affe...

Mar 21st, 2023 - Submucous cleft palate (SMCP) is a particular subtype of cleft deformity with the optimal surgical timing and technique still under debate. This study aimed to identify potential prognostic factors for the speech outcome of patients with SMCP and ...

Mar 21st, 2023 - Prenatal diagnosis of cleft palate (CP) is challenging. The current study's objective was to investigate if prenatal alveolar cleft width is associated with the likelihood of a cleft of the secondary palate in unilateral cleft lip (CL). The author...

Mar 20th, 2023 - Neurodevelopmental disorders associated with periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH) are characterized by phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity. NEDD4L mutation can lead to PVNH7. However, at present, only eight NEDD4L pathogenic variants have b...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Clinical features of SLC26A2-related atelosteogenesis include rhizomelic limb shortening with normal-sized skull, hitchhiker thumbs, small chest, protuberant abdomen, cleft palate, and distinctive facial features (midface retrusion, depressed nasa...

Jan 26th, 2022 - Management of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: Adopted by the FDI General Assembly: 27-29 September 2021, Sydney, Australia.|2022||

Jul 19th, 2020 - Phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) deficiency is a rare genetic disorder that affects glycogen metabolism, glycolysis, and protein glycosylation. Previously known as GSD XIV, it was recently reclassified as a congenital disorder of glycosylation, PGM1-CD...

May 6th, 2017 - To (1) indicate the definition, the disease state, methods of diagnosis, and testing for otitis media with effusion (OME) in childhood (<12 years); and (2) recommend methods of treatment in accordance with the evidence-based consensus reached by t...

Feb 22nd, 2023 - Congenital cleft palate (CP) occurs in children at a rate of about 1.5 per 10 000 births , requiring early surgery, during the first months of life. The surgical procedure can be complicated by airway obstruction and respiratory complications. CP ...

Feb 9th, 2023 - The SIMOVI project is a collaboration between our Department of Maxillofacial Surgery (CHU Amiens) and the Biomechanical bioengineer Research Department and Roberval Labs (Technological University of Compiègne). The question raised is the extent t...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - This trial will look at the feasibility and effect of device-assisted soft palate exercises for the treatment of chronic Eustachian tube (ET) dysfunction (ETD) in older children still experiencing middle-ear disease. Children with or without cleft...

Jan 30th, 2023 - comparison of the maxillary growth between cleft palate patients that underwent to repair by 2 flap palatoplasty versus Furlow with buccinator technique

Oct 17th, 2022 - Infants with cleft palate commonly have feeding difficulties due to incomplete development of orofacial structures. It has been reported that 67% of infants with cleft palate have feeding difficulties and 86% cannot be breastfed. Feeding difficult...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Investigators have known about hereditary diffuse gastric cancer syndrome (HDGC) for decades, but only identified its molecular causes in the 1990s, said gastrointestinal oncologist Bryson Katona, MD, PhD. Until that point, he added, medical techn...

Oct 11th, 2021 - One of the painkillers considered safest for women to take during pregnancy -- acetaminophen (Tylenol) -- has recently come under scrutiny for its potential link to adverse fetal outcomes. Earlier this month, a group of 91 scientists, clinicians, ...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Mothers who used macrolides or prescription opioids in early pregnancy did not seem to have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, according to a pair of observational studies. Compared with those who took penicillin, expectant mo...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Aaron D. Tward, MD, PhD Scientists now know a lot more about the genetic landscape of head and neck cancer and hope that eventually this knowledge will lead the way to new therapies, according to Aaron D. Tward, MD, PhD, of the Broad Institute of...