AIMS To describe the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) in children in schools for the blind in north India, and explore temporal trends in the major causes. METHODS A total of 703 children were examined in 13 blind schools in Delhi. A modified WHO/PBL eye examination record for children with blindness and low vision which included sections on visual acuity, additional ...

Aims: To describe the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) in children in schools for the blind in north India, and explore temporal trends in the major causes. Methods: A total of 703 children were examined in 13 blind schools in Delhi. A modified WHO/PBL eye examination record for children with blindness and low vision which included sections on visual acuity, additional ...

INTRODUCTION We sought to examine the cardiac consequences of early administration of norepinephrine in severely hypotensive sepsis patients hospitalized in a medical intensive care unit of a university hospital. METHODS We included 105 septic-shock patients who already had received volume resuscitation. All received norepinephrine early because of life-threatening hypotension and the need to...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and describe the prevalence and causes of blindness and moderate and severe visual impairment in older adults living in Uruguay. METHODS All individuals aged ≥ 50 years old living in randomly selected clusters were eligible to participate. In each census enumeration unit selected, 50 residents aged 50 years and older were chosen to participate in the study using compa...

BACKGROUND Synchronous development of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) in different sites of the liver have rarely been reported before. The purpose of this study is to investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of synchronous double cancer of HCC and ICC. CASE PRESENTATION A 56-year-old Chinese man without obvious liver cirrhosis was p...

Preserved ejection fraction heart failure (HFpEF) diagnosis remains controversial, and invasive left ventricular (LV) hemodynamic evaluation and/or exercise testing is advocated by many. The stiffer HFpEF myocardium may show impaired stroke volume (SV) variation induced by fluctuating LV filling pressure during ventilation. Our aim was to investigate spectral transfer function (STF) gain from e...

Right ventricular failure (RVF) secondary to pulmonary regurgitation (PR) impairs right ventricular (RV) function and interrupts the interventricular relationship. There are few recommendations for the medical management of severe RVF after prolonged PR. PR was induced in 16 Danish landrace pigs by plication of the pulmonary valve leaflets. Twenty-three pigs served as controls. At reexamination...

The French household electricity market currently dominated by EDF, is going to be opened up to free market economy. In this context, a better understanding of its customers behaviour would be a key feature for the success of the company. To achieve this goal, EDF holds two information sources i.e., a comprehensive customers' invoicing file with few individual data though, as well as survey res...

There is a considerable gap linking human dimensions and marine ecosystem services with Sustainable Development Goals, one of these issues relate to differing perspectives ideas around concepts development. also lack contemporary evaluations coastal communities from developing nations under the lens wellbeing social vulnerability indexes. This study contributes that discussion by presenting an ...

Aims A hallmark of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is impaired exercise capacity varying severity. The main determinant cardiac output (CO), however little information available about the relation between constituents CO – rate and stroke volume in HFpEF. We sought to determine if a heterogeneity response exists patients HFpEF describe possible clinical phenotypes associa...