Quality of Life Following Surgical Treatment of Oculopharyngeal Syndrome
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Oculopharyngeal syndrome is a hereditary disease mostly affecting French Canadians. Cricopharyngeal myotomy and blepharoplasty are commonly performed on these patients. We reviewed the files of 20 patients who underwent these procedures between June 1986 and June 1999. The average perioperative stay was 4.7 days. The nine patients still alive were contacted and answered a telephone survey on their quality of life. None reported postoperative complications. Myotomy significantly improved the medical domain of their quality of life as confirmed by improvement in the dysphagia for solids, food incarceration, duration of meals, and choking during meals. The psychological domain also improved, namely, appetite and interest in food. The effects of blepharoplasty were also notable. Long-term satisfaction is reported by the majority of patients up to a maximum of 10 years postoperatively. In conclusion, simple procedures such as blepharoplasty and cricopharyngeal myotomy greatly improved the quality of life of these patients. We therefore recommend early interventions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".