OBJECTIVE To test the role of joint receptors for proprioception in patients with bilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA) and patients who had undergone unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS Nine patients were tested bilaterally with a conventional movement detection paradigm that evaluated conscious detection perception and a newly developed hunting paradigm that measured maximal sens...

purpose: to report visual outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy in severely traumatized eyes with no light perception (nlp) and flat electroretinography (erg) methods: we performed a prospective interventional study on 22 severely traumatized eyes with nlp, 4+ relative afferent pupillary defect (rapd) and flat erg. results: one year after pars plana virectomy, 15 patients (68.18%) had nlp, six pati...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Fanconi anemia is a hereditary chromosomal instability disorder. Hearing loss and ear abnormalities are among the many manifestations reported in this disorder. In addition, Fanconi anemia patients often complain about hearing difficulties in situations with background noise (speech perception in noise difficulties). Our study aimed to describe the prevalence of hearing lo...

Small and large fibre function was studied in 40 non-ketotic, newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic patients and 48 age-matched controls, using 12 quantitative tests for assessment of cutaneous sensation. Patients were aged 10-39 years and had been treated with insulin for 4-31 days. Thermal discrimination (foot), warm and cold thermal perception (thenar eminence and foot), and heat and cold pain per...