Objective: To study the early and late facial nerve (FN) outcomes in different tumor classes in addition to determining the predictive factors for the same. Study Design: A retrospective clinical study. Setting: A quaternary referral otology and skull base center. Patients and Methods: A retrospective study of 1983 cases of vestibular schwannomas (VSs) with preoperative normal FN function, undergoing total excision with anatomical preservation of the nerve by enlarged translabyrinthine approach (ETLA) were included. FN status was recorded postoperatively at day 1, at discharge, and at 1-year follow-up and were analyzed in different tumor sizes. Results: At 1 year, 988 patients with House–Brackmann (H–B) grade I and II FN at day 1 after surgery, 958 (96.9%) maintained their status up-to 1 year. Of the 216 patients with H–B grade III at day 1 after surgery, 113 (52.3%) improved to H–B grade I and II. Similarly, of the 779 patients with H–B grade IV and VI FN function at day 1 after surgery, improvement to H–B III and H–B I and II were noted in 442 (56.7%) and 80 (10.3%) of patients, respectively. Intrameatal and extrameatal tumors upto 2 cm showed better recovery from H–B grade III to H–B I and II and from H–B grade IV and VI to H–B I and III when compared with extrameatal tumors >2 cm (p = 0.001). Conclusion: Tumors of smaller sizes have good immediate postoperative FN results and recover well at the end of 1 year while more than 3 cm have poor outcomes and recover poorly at the end of 1 year. When the VSs reaches more than 1 cm, the HB I and II outcomes drop significantly.
Introduction: The diseases number with a known inflammatory etiology is constantly increasing. Cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, osteoporosis, cancer, asthma, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes and obesity are associated with chronic low-grade inflammation. There is evidence that individuals who engage in intense physical activity or who exercise regularly, shows changes in biomarkers associated with chronic inflammation. Physical exercise is useful in preventing many diseases, due to improved cardiorespiratory, metabolic, musculoskeletal function. All these improve the immunity and antioxidant capacity, thus reducing the incidence of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Materials and Methods: In this study were included 90 bibliographic sources, of which the title contains the following keywords: exercise - 23, inflammation - 27, anti-inflammatory - 6, IL-6 - 13, IL-10 - 4, myokine - 3, IL-15 - 3, irisin - 6, obesity - 11, chronic inflammation - 7. This study discussed aspects of exercise, pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, immunological mechanisms, the dual role of IL-6 cytokine, and the anti-inflammatory effects of physical exercise. Results: Physical exercise is an efficient clinical tool, that limits chronic inflammation activating the immune system that will increase the level of anti-inflammatory IL-6 myokine. There is a direct relationship between the volume and intensity of exercise and the amount of IL-6 myokine in the blood stream. Conclusions: These studies contribute significantly to the understanding of the mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory effect of exercise. More studies on chronic low-grade inflammatory diseases are needed to understand their pathophysiology, and that will inspire the specialists improve long-term treatment strategies. Keywords: physical exercise, chronic low-grade inflammation, anti-inflammatory, IL-6, myokine,
The use of the specific means of sports games during the physical education lesson completes the motor potential of each student, in order to obtain a higher level of the motor quality indices and the amplification of effort capacity. Success in badminton is related to the efficiency and effectiveness of the player's movement on the court and during the shots. Badminton players must develop a wide variety of shots and types of movements that must be able to be performed from different positions on the field, in different situations of the match, at different speeds, which also implies a high level of manifestation of coordination capabilities. The paper aims to demonstrate that their education determines the faster acquisition of technique.
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