Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP) is caused by mutations in two known genes, rhodopsin and peripherin/Rds, and seven loci identified only by linkage analysis. Rhodopsin and peripherin/Rds have been estimated to account for 20-31% and less than 5% of ADRP, respectively. No estimate of frequency has previously been possible for the remaining loci, since these can only be implicated w...

OBJECTIVE Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a common cause of respiratory distress in premature infants. This study was designed to evaluate two different RDS treatment protocols by comparing the outcomes. METHODS This study was a double center cross sectional study performed from June to December 2012. During that period, 386 neonates with RDS were hospitalized and treated according to ...

Rumah Desa Sehat (RDS) adalah salah satu program Kementerian Desa, Pembangunan Daerah Tertinggal dan Transmigrasi. Direktorat Jenderal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat telah mengeluarkan Pedoman Teknis RDS pada tahun 2018. Kecamatan Gubug mengambil langkah strategis berani, dengan menetapakan kebijakan bagi seluruh desa yang berada di wilayahnya untuk mengalokasikan 10% anggaran Dana menangani permasala...

BACKGROUND Respondent-driven sampling(RDS) is an increasingly widely used variant of a link tracing design for recruiting hidden populations. The role of the spatial distribution of the target population has not been robustly examined for RDS. We examine patterns of recruitment by location, and how they may have biased an RDS study findings. METHODS Total-population data were available on a r...

BACKGROUND Prematurity is still a major problem for health care services throughout the world. Before the late 1980s, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) was the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm new-borns. Frequency of RDS and ensuing mortality in infants treated with antenatal steroid is less than those delivered without this therapy. Many pregnant females deliver before ter...

OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to evaluate whether mild to moderate infant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) might affect the pulmonary function in school-aged children. MATERIAL AND METHODS 50 children, aged 10.2 +/- 2.8 years, with a history of RDS and 90 controls without a neonatal history of lung diseases, matched for a...

The brainstem of the adult rat is relatively resistant to spreading depolarization (SD) but after enhancement of excitability SD can be evoked by local application of KCl. In the present experiments, we observed that the enhanced excitability even triggers prolonged periods of repetitive depolarizations (RDs), which elicit significant cardiovascular changes. In contrast to KCl-evoked SDs with a...

BACKGROUND/AIM Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is increasingly applied in social epidemiological surveys among 'hidden populations' of hard drug users. The objective of the present study was to assess whether the profile of frequent crack users recruited through RDS differed from those surveyed in two random institutional samples, i.e. low-threshold opiate substitution treatment (ST) and user ...