Preoperative lamivudine therapy in HBV DNA positive recipients: is it always necessary?
Our findings indicate that postoperative combination prophylaxis is effective and that preoperative lamivudine therapy is unlikely to be obligatory despite a positive preoperative serum HBV DNA status.
Short or variable time in bed and nightly snoring or higher apnea hypopnea index predicted impaired vocabulary and similarities scores in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy suspected of having obstructive sleep-disordered breathing. The degree of cognitive impairment attributable to short time in bed and obstructive sleep-disordered breathing is clinically very significant.