Ricerc@Sapienza

The present study aims to obtain a probability model allowing the prediction of the auditory recovery in patients affected by sudden sensorineural hearing loss treated exclusively with intratympanic steroids. A monocentric retrospective chart review of three-hundred eighty-one patients has been performed. A Probit model was used to investigate the correlation between the success of the treatment (marked or total recovery according to Furuashi's criteria), and the delay between the onset of disease and the beginning of therapy.

Leather tanning processing and manufacturing industry uses high large amounts of water in the range of 40–45 L kg–1 during processing. As a result, tannery wastewater rises by the same amount, is characterized by a large inorganic load (chlorides, with concentration ranging from several hundred to over 10,000 mg L–1 Cl–; sulphate (VI), ammonium ions and sulphide ions, exhibiting concentration that ranges from tens to several hundred mg L–1) and together with organic pollution (the chemical oxygen demand value is usually several thousand mg L–1 O2).

CONTEXT: Secondary adrenal insufficiency is a potential complication of transsphenoidal adenomectomy (TSA). Most centers test recovery of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis after TSA, but, to our knowledge, there are no data predicting likelihood of recovery or the frequency of later recovery of HPA function. OBJECTIVE: To assess timing and predictors of HPA axis recovery after TSA. DESIGN: Single-center, retrospective analysis of consecutive pituitary surgeries performed between February 2015 and September 2018.