STUDY DESIGN A clinical and cohort study. OBJECTIVE The first purpose of this study was to investigate the standard value of a simple foot tapping test (FTT) in a large healthy population. The second purpose was to elucidate the validity of FTT as a quantitative assessment of lower extremity motor function for cervical compressive myelopathy. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Several clinical perf...

The False Tagging Theory (FTT) is a neuroanatomical model of belief and doubt processes that proposes a single, unique function for the prefrontal cortex. Here, we review evidence pertaining to the FTT, the implications of the FTT regarding fractionation of the prefrontal cortex, and the potential benefits of the FTT for new neuroanatomical conceptualizations of executive functions. The FTT pro...

1. Characterize the limitations of the classic dichotomy of “nonorganic” versus “organic” failure to thrive (FTT). 2. Recognize that FTT is not a diagnosis but rather a physical sign of inadequate nutrition to support growth. 3. Know potential sequelae of FTT. 4. Understand how the diagnostic process must account for the multifactorial nature of FTT. 5. Describe a systems-based, multidisciplina...

Failure to thrive (FTT) is a syndrome of growth failure that results in an infant who is behaviorally difficult. The current thinking is that FTT results from a problematic infant-mother interaction, with the infant making a significant contribution to the interactional process. It is possible that the behavioral characteristics of the infant with FTT may be related to underlying physiologic re...

BACKGROUND This study aimes to evaluate the failure to thrive (FTT) recurrent event over time. METHODS This longitudinal study was conducted during February 2007 to July 2009. The primary outcome was growth failure. The analysis was done using 1283 children who had experienced FTT several times, based on recurrent events analysis. RESULTS Fifty-nine percent of the children had experienced t...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate the validity and reproducibility of a new treadmill protocol in healthy children and adolescents: the Fitkids Treadmill Test (FTT). METHODS Sixty-eight healthy children and adolescents (6-18 yr) were randomly divided into a validity group (14 boys and 20 girls; mean ± SD age, 12.9 ± 3.6 yr) that performed the FTT and Bruce protocol, both with respirator...

The Flexible Time-Triggered Switched Ethernet (FTT-SE) protocol was proposed in 2006 [1] as a realization of the FTT paradigm [2] specifically adapted to switched Ethernet. This paradigm first appeared in 1998 implemented on CAN, the FTT-CAN protocol [3], followed by an implementation on shared Ethernet in 2002 [4]. The FTT paradigm is a framework to develop distributed real-time systems that a...

Microvascular free tissue transfer (FTT) is an increasingly used method of reconstruction for traumatic defects of the head and neck. We describe the immediate management, FTT reconstruction techniques, and outcomes of 6 individuals who sustained maxillofacial gunshot trauma and were treated at a single tertiary-care level I trauma center. All 6 patients were white men with a mean age of 33 yea...

Children with ventricular septal defect (VSD) often demonstrate failure to thrive (FTT). Such patients usually have reduced systemic cardiac output which has been postulated as a cause for their growth retardation. This study was conducted to ascertain the mechanism of the reduced cardiac output in children with VSD and FTT and also in a porcine model of VSD. Forward stroke volume was reduced i...

OBJECTIVE Outcomes of the supraclavicular artery island flap (SCAIF) have not been extensively studied in comparison with free tissue transfer (FTT) flaps for head and neck reconstruction. We hypothesize that the pedicled SCAIF has decreased operating room time, length of stay, time to wound healing of recipient site, complications, and hospital charges as compared with FTT. STUDY DESIGN Case...