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9. The sensitivity and specificity were 80 and 92%, respectively. The area under the ROC curve was 0.935. At-home continuous overnight pulse oximetry could be used to screen moderate-to-severe OSA in patients scheduled for bariatric surgery because it would allow clinicians to implement early CPAP therapy and avoid preoperative PSG or CRP. At-home continuous overnight pulse oximetry could be used to screen moderate-to-severe OSA in patients scheduled for bariatric surgery because it would allow clinicians to implement early CPAP therapy and avoid preoperative PSG or CRP. The slicing method that is used for thinning the cartilage graft may cause forming complications in tympanoplasty. Besides, double-layered grafting techniques may be required when graft medialization is observed. This article presents a new and controlled graft cartilage thinning and the cubism graft-harvesting technique in tympanoplasty. Thanks to this new technique, over-curling and undesirable fractures of the cartilage island graft can be prevented and the obtained cartilaginous dust can be mixed with platelet-rich fibrin to form the cubism graft. This combined cartilage thinning and cubism graft technique provided 100% graft success and an average air-bone gap gain of 16.3 ± 2.9dB (10.7-22.3dB) in our series of 22 patients. In conclusion, 100% graft success, successful tympanic membrane re-epithelialization and significant auditory improvement can be achieved with this method. Thanks to this new technique, over-curling and undesirable fractures of the cartilage island graft can be prevented and the obtained cartilaginous dust can be mixed with platelet-rich fibrin to form the cubism graft. This combined cartilage thinning and cubism graft technique provided 100% graft success and an average air-bone gap gain of 16.3 ± 2.9 dB (10.7-22.3 dB) in our series of 22 patients. In conclusion, 100% graft success, successful tympanic membrane re-epithelialization and significant auditory improvement can be achieved with this method. The main causes for objectively confirmed chronic impaired nasal breathing in children are adenoid and turbinate hypertrophy. Turbinate hypertrophy may be addressed by turbinate surgery. T26 inhibitor However, specialized guidelines include no specific indications for pediatric patients. The decongestant test consists of simulating the effect of turbinate surgery by means of a nasal decongestant. This project, developed by the YO-IFOS rhinology group, aims to establish a cutoff value for the nasal decongestant test with rhinomanometry to select children for turbinate surgery. Children between 4 and 15years of age were included. Cases were consecutively selected from children affected by turbinate hypertrophy undergoing turbinate radiofrequency ablation with or without adenoidectomy. Controls were consecutively selected from a sample of healthy children. All the subjects were examined with anterior active rhinomanometry with and without nasal decongestant. Sample included 72 cases and 24 healthy controls. There was a statistically significant difference in the improvement with the decongestant between cases (57.91%) and controls (15.67%). The ROC curve revealed an area under the curve of 0.97. The highest amount of correctly classified individuals (93.44%) corresponded to the cutoff value of 31.66%. However, the value with the highest specificity and highest Youden's index was the 38.88% improvement in nasal resistance with nasal decongestant. In conclusion, a preliminary cutoff value for the decongestant test used with rhinomanometry in children has been established. This test could help identify children for turbinate surgery. In conclusion, a preliminary cutoff value for the decongestant test used with rhinomanometry in children has been established. This test could help identify children for turbinate surgery. The aim of the st