CVI (Cerebral Visual Impairment) is the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States and the Western Europe. Due to the high number of different inabilities that children could have when affected by CVI, it is crucial for the rehabilitation process to start from a good assessment, especially at early ages. In this paper we present HelpMe!, a serious game to improve the rehabilitation...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress is common among medical students but manifests in a variety of forms. Currently, no brief, practical tool exists to simultaneously evaluate these domains of distress among medical students. The authors describe the development of a subject-reported assessment (Medical Student Well-Being Index, MSWBI) intended to screen for medical student distress across a vari...

PURPOSE To investigate the rate of spontaneous resolution of strabismus in patients with cortical visual impairment (CVI) at a single center over a 10-year period and to evaluate the success rate of strabismus surgery. METHODS The medical records of patients with CVI and strabismus seen between October 2003 and October 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were classified into 4 outcom...

Address for correspondence: Dr. Sudhanshu Vrati National Institute of Immunology Aruna saf Ali Marg, JNU Comples, New Delhi 110067 Phone: +91-11-26703696, Fax: +91-11-26162125, Email: [email protected] AC CE PT ED Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00173-07 CVI Accepts, published ...

The modern aspects of pharmacotherapy of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) of the lower extremities are presented in the article. Phlebotropic drugs are medications for basic pharmacotherapy of CVI. A common characteristic of pharmacodynamics of these drugs is the ability to increase the venous tone, and reduce severity of specific symptoms and syndromes of CVI. The efficiency of the most wide...

Natural variation for freezing tolerance is a major component of adaptation and geographic distribution of plant species. However, little is known about the genes and molecular mechanisms that determine its naturally occurring diversity. We have analyzed the intraspecific freezing tolerance variation existent between two geographically distant accessions of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), C...

Scale developers often provide evidence of content validity by computing a content validity index (CVI), using ratings of item relevance by content experts. We analyzed how nurse researchers have defined and calculated the CVI, and found considerable consistency for item-level CVIs (I-CVIs). However, there are two alternative, but unacknowledged, methods of computing the scale-level index (S-CV...

Intraindividual variation (CVi) for glycohemoglobin (GHb) was estimated from serial measurements in patients with diabetes in either stable or variable clinical control. GHb determinations were performed by an affinity column procedure with an analytical imprecision of 4.9% (weighted average; GHb 8.2-14.7%). Within the groups of patients, both a short- (28-32 days) and long-term (approximately ...

Cerebrovascular insult (CVI) is a known and important risk factor for the development of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA); still, it seems that the prevalence of DKA among the patients suffering CVI and its influence on stroke outcome might be underestimated. Diabetic ketoacidosis itself has been reported to be a risk factor for the occurrence of stroke in children and youth. A cerebral hypoperfusio...

Objective To translate the English work-related acceptance and action questionnaire (WAAQ), make cross-cultural adaptations, and examine its psychometric properties when used by Chinese oncology nurses. Methods After translation, the psychometric properties of the Chinese WAAQ were analyzed among 417 nurses, and content validity was determined by six experts. Results Item-level content vali...