Treatment of minor severe acquired haemophilia. Is there a rationale for immunoadsorption?
Immunosuppressive treatment failed in nearly a half of AH patients. Mortality was with 25% still high. The majority of patients required an intense long-term IT and developed severe treatment related side effect. Immediate start of IT did not control bleeding. In consequence, less severe AH also should be treated with a more rigorous regime because the occurrence of minors bleedings at initial presentation is not a predictive of clinical outcome. An Immunoadsorption-based protocol should be considered first line or even as a salvage strategy.
The technique of intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery is safe and reliable in excluding postoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; it has high accuracy, specificity, sensitivity and negative predictive value. Neuromonitoring is useful to identify the recurrent laryngeal nerve and it can be a useful adjunctive technique for reassuring surgeons of the functional integrity of the nerve but it does not decrease the incidence of injuries compared with visualization alone. Its application can be particularly recommended for high-risk thyroidectomies.