Physical therapists at an outpatient pediatric facility developed and implemented an Intensity Program for children with movement challenges. The program was initiated on the basis of best evidence, p...
A variety of outcome data were analyzed to compare preprogram performance with postprogram performance....
Program participants made statistically significant and clinically important improvement in most outcome measures. Parents were highly satisfied with the program, including 98% of respondents who indi...
The results of this investigation suggest that many children with movement challenges are likely to benefit from participation in an Intensity Program....
We witnessed major advances in the management of heart failure (HF) in 2022. Results of recent clinical and preclinical investigations aid preventive strategies, diagnostic efforts, and therapeutic in...
Long COVID is a clinical diagnosis generally referring to the persistence or development of new symptoms, affecting multiple organ systems after SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 infection. Long COVID is thought to...
Executive functions are crucial cognitive processes which enable us to manage our daily life, to be able to sustain goal-oriented behavior, to adapt to environmental changes and to regulate and coordi...
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of gender, age, and education on the performance of three neurocognitive tests measuring executive functions, and to provide normative data in the ...
Victoria Stroop Test, Five-Point Test and Trail Making Test were administered to 316 individuals (175 female, 141 male). The sample was representative for Hungarian adults regarding age, gender and ed...
Performance scores decreased with increasing age, while scores increased by higher educational level. Performance was not influenced by gender. Significant correlations were observed between the measu...
The provision of normative data should enhance the potential of the applied measures for clinical and research applications. These data provide a normative comparison for the assessment of executive f...
RMS most commonly presents in children and adolescents, however a subset of tumors are diagnosed in infants under one year of age. Due to the rarity of infant RMS, utilization of different treatment a...
Adrenohepatic fusion (AHF) is a union of the right adrenal gland and the liver with intermingling of parenchymal adrenal and liver cells. The phenomenon can be of clinical importance when evaluating p...
Colovesical fistula (CVF) is a condition with various aetiologies and presentations. Surgical treatment is necessary in most cases. Due to its complexity, open approach is preferred. However, laparosc...
This was a retrospective study. We retrospectively reviewed all patients undergoing elective laparoscopic management of CVF from March 2015 to December 2019....
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Nine patients underwent laparoscopic management of CVF. There were no intraoperative complications or conversions to open surgery. A sigmoidectomy was performed in eight cases. In one patient, a fistu...
CVF can be managed with laparoscopic approach by skilled laparoscopic surgeons in different clinical scenarios. Bladder suture is not necessary if leakage is absent. Informed counselling to the patien...
in patients with advanced primary or recurrent gynecologic, urologic, or rectal cancers without metastatic disease, extensive aggressive surgery such as pelvic exenteration may be necessary for curati...
a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the colorectal unit at King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan, between March 2014 and December 2021. All patients who underwent pelvic exen...
a total of 30 patients underwent thirty-one operations. There were 22 females and eight males with a median age of 55 (range 25-86) years. Twenty-six surgeries were for advanced primary and 5 for recu...
in our study, pelvic exenteration provides above 40% overall survival at a median follow-up of two years. Gaining experience in this type of procedure, a multidisciplinary approach, careful patients' ...
To describe the Turkish generalized lipodystrophy (GL) cohort with the frequency of each complication and the death rate during the period of the follow-up....
This study reports on 72 patients with GL (47 families) registered at different centres in Turkey that cover all regions of the country. The mean ± SD follow-up was 86 ± 78 months....
The Kaplan-Meier estimate of the median time to diagnosis of diabetes and/or prediabetes was 16 years. Hyperglycaemia was not controlled in 37 of 45 patients (82.2%) with diabetes. Hypertriglyceridaem...
Standard treatment approaches have only a limited impact and do not prevent the development of severe metabolic abnormalities and early onset of organ complications in GL....
Refractive error is the most common cause of decreased visual acuity. Refractive measurement in adults consists of cycloplegic (objective) and manifest (subjective) refraction. Although the effectiven...
To compare the accuracy and precision of the two autorefractors' findings in Rajavithi Hospital, OptoChek Plus, and TOMEY Auto Refractometer RC-5000, with each other and with those of the subjective m...
An observational study was conducted at the Ophthalmology clinic in Rajavithi Hospital from March 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022. All subjects were tested using the two autorefractors (OptoChek Plus and T...
Forty-eight patients (48 eyes) were enrolled in the study. The difference between spherical powers obtained by OptoChek and subjective refraction was not significantly different; however, there was a ...
There was a clinically significant difference between the cylindrical power calculated by the two autorefractors and those obtained from subjective refraction. Patients with high astigmatism should be...
