For the first time at UNC Hospitals, a surgical team has successfully performed corneal neurotization—the only disease modifying surgical treatment for neurotrophic keratitis (NK), a rare eye condition that causes loss ...
Nov 1, 2023
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During formation of the vascular system, successively smaller blood vessels sprout from existing ones to form networks of capillaries in patterns uniquely adapted to the function of the organ they enter. This process, called ...
Aug 30, 2013
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SPOKANE, WASH. –A research study conducted at Washington State University Spokane offers hope to those suffering from facial nerve damage. According to the study, which was published online this week in the journal Developmental ...
May 10, 2011
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(HealthDay)—After facial paralysis, mobilization and transposition of the intratemporal segment of the facial nerve for end-to-side coaptation to the hypoglossal nerve can restore facial tone and symmetry, according to ...
Jun 25, 2016
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It has been 2 years since Andy Sandness was wheeled into an operating room at Mayo Clinic's Rochester, Minnesota, campus for a 56-hour marathon surgery to give him a complete face transplant.
Mar 11, 2019
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Two-year-old Jax Cannon is giving his dad high-fives.
Jun 22, 2012
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Research work drawn up by specialists from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University of Navarra Hospital has shown that, after surgical treatment for facial paralysis through using ...
Nov 9, 2011
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A new study published in the journal Cephalalgia, the official journal of the International Headache Society, shows unprecedented data regarding the neuroanatomical influence on the treatment response of patients with trigeminal ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Most survivors of squamous cell head and neck cancers report that their sense of taste is dulled, changed or lost during radiation treatment, causing them to lose interest in eating and diminishing their quality of life.
Jun 23, 2021
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Treatment for Bell palsy (a condition involving the facial nerve and characterized by facial paralysis) with the corticosteroid prednisolone within 72 hours appeared to significantly reduce the number of patients with mild ...
May 21, 2012
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