infectious diseases of the pediatric retina

... Sudan.249 The organism’s life cycle begins in the gut of the sandfly, but the organism completes its life cycle in the host following the fly bite The sandfly inoculates the host with the organisms ... and, in the soil, if they are exposed to the right conditions, will grow into infectious oocysts The tachyzoites are the proliferating form of the organism, and, when present in tissue, they incite ... found that more than 50% of patients with AFS harbored Aspergillus or Penicillium rRNA.123 The type of fungi isolated may vary with the area of the country The diagnosis of AFS should be considered...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) Eye squeeze None Min Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) ... system of the brainstem, just above the midbrain The assessment of consciousness is closely tied to the assessment of eye findings because of the anatomic proximity of the midbrain to the nuclei of ... impact the assessment will be the age of the child, the family dynamics, the nature of the child’s illness, the setting in which the assessment takes place, and input from other member of the multidisciplinary...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Support roles are also played by the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Department ... regulations for the transport of infectious materials by any mode of transport These regulations are based upon the Recommendations of the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous ... use of the term “Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) developed first by the FAO instead of the use of “foreign animal diseases Transboundary Animal Diseases are defined 18 FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASES...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... lags He states: “since the 1960s the United States, like much of the rest of the world, has seen a decline in the ability of the public health system to address the threat of infectious disease.” ... because of four intentional plane crashes, because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time Among the consequences of these deaths was a major redefinition and redirection of the role of government ... intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast this year, as the warming Gulf of Mexico feeds the ferocity of the hurricanes as they travel over water Class The response to Katrina displayed the class...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... cells of the transgenic animals, and thereby promoted the development of carcinoma of the lung This mouse model should prove useful to the study of lung carcinogenesis and to the identification of ... Tropical Diseases of the Lung The combination of bevacizumab with some of the new agents has been studied as well In the ATLAS study, after having received four cycles of cisplatin-based chemotherapy ... integrity of the vessels PDGF has also been implicated in the regulation of the tonus of blood vessels [57] PDGF functions have been implicated in a broad range of diseases For a few of them, i.e.,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

... Benign disorders and diseases of the breast Lymphatics of the breast The lymphatic drainage of the breast is of great importance in the spread of malignant disease of the breast but of lesser importance ... pathologist of the UK As their work overlaps the professional span of many of the present generation of breast specialists, they have been left to future study This chapter is not the history of benign ... the basis of the macroscopic anatomy of the breast in his book on the anatomy of diseases of the breast published in 1845 The French surgeon Reclus gave an excellent description of the clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:20

... years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample No parent in the patient group refused to participate in the study, ... Score, the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Subscales The sequential validation procedure of the ... questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% of the sample Distribution of all participants in terms of gender and age group...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... the ED and at the time of follow-up (FU) Another consideration is validity: the strength of the association between the candidate instrument and other relevant outcomes (construct validity) The ... correlated with the PedsQL™ total scores at FU, with the exception of caregiver missed work or school (Table 1) The negative direction of the correlation reflects that the longer the duration of fever ... heterogeneous pediatric ED illness, in the ED setting Our results illustrate the PedsQL™ can overcome many of the barriers to ED assessment of HRQOL The results of our study demonstrate that the PedsQL™...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... means of convenience samples from the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Centers at two public hospitals of the city A total of 190 families of Brazilian children between the ages of and 18 years, of ... individuals off treatment Therefore, the occurrence of illness implied limitations and difficulties The analysis of the Corrected Item-Total Correlation proved the satisfactory homogeneity of the instrument ... investigation Finally, there was no report by the patients or guardians of any lack of comprehension regarding the questions The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the quality of life among...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scores on the social functioning scale of both healthy ... obtained from the scale [16], and a rating scale may not be used by respondents in the way it was intended by the developer of the scale [15] Thus, the assumptions about both the quality of the measures ... as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missing data) The physical health summary score is the same as the physical functioning subscale To create the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... measures the impact of pediatric chronic medical conditions on parents and family functioning In order to improve the assessment of the impact of pediatric chronic diseases on the parent HRQOL in the ... reach the value of 0.85 Discussion The current study presents the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the FIM This is also the first report of psychometric properties of ... or the acceptance of the translation They were also encouraged to suggest solutions to the identified problems After the revision of the second version, the Chinese version of the FIM was finalized...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... now, validation of the Japanese version has not been conducted The aim of this study was to demonstrate the reliability, validity, and feasibility of the Japanese version of the PedsQL 3.0 Cancer ... version, the interviewer was the child’s parent After the parent completed the parent proxy report separately from their child, they read out the questions for the child’s self-report and marked the ... means the patient was receiving medical treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery (n = 88; 35.9%) Off-treatment status means the patient completed all therapy by the time of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... [19,20] In order to improve the assessment of the impact of asthma on the pediatric HRQOL in the context with Chinese culture, we decided to generate the Chinese version of the PedsQL™ 3.0 Asthma ... guarantee the power of test, the groups of Children and Teens were combined into one group for subsequent analyses because of the small sample size of Teens (n = 9) In this study, the majority of the ... for each item The average completion time was defined as the mean of completion time of the Asthma Module The percentage of missing value for each item was defined as the number of subjects who...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... limitations The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of ... loaded to other factors One possible explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the mentioned ... than the 5-factor model based on the good of fitness (GOF) indices from CFA In addition based on the criteria used (Scree test) and theoretical consideration, the results of EFA on this set of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... chemotherapy Convergent and discriminant validity was examined by correlating the scales of the Japanese version of the PedsQL™ Brain Tumor Module with the theoretically-predicted scales of the ... Additionally, proof of the validity of our results was evidenced on several points The fixed scale-development methods of the present study ensured the content validity and the results ensured ... 4Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan, 5Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... tiết sữa không liên quan tới thai sản bệnh nhân sinh nhiều lần, việc tăng tiết sữa xuất không kèm theo tăng tiết prolactin Tuy vậy, tăng tiết sữa thường gây tăng prolactin, 75% bệnh nhân tăng tiết ... kích thích - Khi ăn + Do thuốc: - Hướng thần kinh: phenothiazin, butyrophenon, sulpirid, thioxanthen - Estrogen (thuốc ngừa thai) - Hạ huyết áp: aldomet, reserpin, verapamil - Chống nôn: metoclopramid...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 23:20

... yếu tố tăng trưởng giống insulin (insulin like growth factor 1- IGF hay somatomedin C) Vì tiết GH theo giai đoạn thời gian bán hủy ngắn, định lượng IGF-1 tốt bệnh to đầu chi Bình thường IGF-1 =...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 23:20