Background : Chronic rhinosinusitis is inflammation of the mucoperiosteum lining of the nose and paranasal sinuses for more than 12 weeks. Computed Tomography (CT scan) of the paranasal sinuses is the gold standard for diagnosing chronic rhinosinusitis. Nasal septal deviation and bullous concha are anatomical variation that often found in CT scan of chronic rhinosinusitis patients. The seve…
Latar belakang : Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) memiliki hubungan dua arah dengan stroke iskemik. SDB yang tidak diobati dapat menyebabkan stroke berulang. Penanganan SDB adalah kunci untuk preventif pada pasien stroke. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis IMT, lingkar leher besar, deviasi septum, hipertrofi konka, hipertrofi tonsila palatina, makroglosia, dan obstruksi saluran naf…
Latar belakang : Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) ditandai dengan adanya obstruksi jalan napas yang menyebabkan napas berhenti sesaat, baik secara total maupun parsial. OSA dapat menyebabkan komplikasi yang berat. Diagnostik pasti OSA dengan polisomnografi (PSG). PSG tidak banyak tersedia di fasilitas kesehatan, pemeriksaan friedman tongue position (FTP) diharapkan dapat menjadi pemeriksaan se…
Background : The prevalence of olfactory disorders is around 68–85% which occurs in COVID-19 patients with obesity and allergies as risk factors. The abnormalities olfactory pathways can cause by inflammatory response in adipose tissue in obese patients and excessive inflammation due to hyperreactivity of the immune system to allergens in allergic patients. This study aims to analyze the …
Background : Oral mucositis is an injury of normal mucosal tissue with an acute inflammation of the oral, tongue, and pharyngeal mucosa after exposure to chemoradiotherapy. Post chemoradiotherapy oral mucositis is commonly accompanied by painful swallowing or odynophagia. Povidone iodine 1% is an antiseptic mouthwash that widely used to prevent infections in the oral cavity. The aim of this …
Background : In chronic rhinosinusitis patients, there is a subgroup of patients with persistent symptoms after treatment, who often shows bone thickening and remodeling in their paranasal sinuses and described as osteitis. Osteitis can be evaluated by several methods, one of which is the Global Osteitis Score (GOS). This study was aimed to analyse the correlation between preoperative ostei…
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic condition characterized by repetitive episodes of upper airway collapse, apnea, and arousal during sleep. OSA and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are common comorbid conditions. Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is an approximation of an individual’s average blood glucose level for the prior two to three months, and therefore is considered to b…
Latar belakang : Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) memiliki hubungan dua arah dengan stroke iskemik. SDB yang tidak diobati dapat menyebabkan stroke berulang. Penanganan SDB adalah kunci untuk preventif pada pasien stroke. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis IMT, lingkar leher besar, deviasi septum, hipertrofi konka, hipertrofi tonsila palatina, makroglosia, dan obstruksi saluran naf…
Background: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most common and serious sleep disorders that can cause various neurocognitive disorders such as depression and anxiety. OSA can occur in young adults, who are at an important developmental age in human life. The relationship between OSA and levels of depression and anxiety has never been studied in young adults, especially college stu…
Latar belakang : Disfagia dapat terjadi akibat komplikasi dari diabetes mellitus terutama pada fase orofaringeal. Disfagia pada diabetes mellitus terjadi karena adanya neuropati autonom akibat hiperglikemia yang lama. Komplikasi ini mempengaruhi berbagai bagian sistem saraf dan mempunyai manifestasi klinis yang beragam, salah satunya adalah kerusakan metabolik pada struktur saraf dan mikrov…