Psychiatry related information on Amputees

• P300-amplitudes in upper limb amputees with and without phantom limb pain in a visual oddball paradigm [1].

High impact information on Amputees

• In the skilled amputee volunteer, FDG uptake increased in the adductor and gluteus medius in the amputated side, while in the unskilled the adductor, gluteus maximus, and gluteus medius showed increased FDG uptake only in the normal side [2].
• Vibration and pressure perception measurements (which assess Abeta nerve fibre function) showed that both the diabetic amputee and non-diabetic amputee subjects had significantly greater impairment than the controls [3].
• Epidural bupivacaine and morphine on stump sensation in lower limb amputees [4].
• The blood glucose control was poor in all 45 major amputees, and their mean HbA1c (8.80%) was higher than that in the minor or non-amputation group (7.79%, P = 0.035) [5].
• Against a skin-like material, a urethane liner had the highest coefficient of friction of any liner tested, although coefficients of friction values for most of the materials were higher than interface shear:pressure ratios measured on amputee subjects using Pelite liners [6].

Associations of Amputees with chemical compounds

• We investigated the gait of five below-knee amputees while wearing four different DER feet (Flex-Foot, Carbon Copy II, SEATTLE, STEN) and a standard SACH foot [7].
• Retraction of "Gait analysis and energy consumption of below-knee amputees wearing three different prosthetic feet" [Gait and Posture 12 (2000) 162-168] [8].
• CONCLUSIONS: Balance confidence, as measured by the ABC Scale, is a construct that provides unique information potentially useful to clinicians who provide amputee rehabilitation [9].
• Topical capsaicin as an adjuvant analgesic for the treatment of traumatic amputee neurogenic residual limb pain [10].
• Eight below-knee amputees performed isokinetic training of knee extensor- and knee-flexor muscles for a period of 8-12 weeks at angular velocities of 60 degrees/s, 180 degrees/s and 240 degrees/s. Before and after training isokinetic and isometric knee extensor/flexor strength was measured [11].

Gene context of Amputees

• A computer-aided socket design procedure (CASD) has been developed whereby an above-knee socket shape can be created based on anthropometric measurements taken from an amputee [12].
• This was confirmed by an ergonomic investigation on ten below-knee amputees, fitted with PTB prostheses [13].
• Recently introduced prosthetic socket designs for the above-knee amputee (AKA) feature a narrow medial-lateral dimension and emphasize maintenance of the residual limb in full physiologic adduction [14].
• We describe three patients, all of them lower limb amputees who also had seropositive, nodular rheumatoid arthritis [15].
• The 28-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was validated against the PSE-derived Index of Definition in a sample of amputees with long-standing phantom and stump pain attending a Limb Fitting Centre. This form of the GHQ is a sensitive identifier of overt psychiatric disorder in this setting [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Amputees

• This study used FDG PET to evaluate the lower limb muscles metabolic activities of transfemoral amputees during walking with prostheses [2].
• Twenty-four above-knee amputees (AKA) treated with rigid plaster dressings were randomized to receive ambulation on pylon within 24 hours of surgery or at time of suture removal [17].
• During the OGTT, amputees had significantly larger increments in low-frequency power than did controls (2.2 +/- 1.3 versus 1.6 +/- 0.9 (beats/min)2 respectively, p < 0.01) and plasma NE levels increased significantly in amputees (1595 +/- 849 versus 1941 +/- 986 pM, p = 0.0008) but not in controls [18].
• The CASD socket shapes were compared numerically in area, shape and volume with data taken from the original socket worn by the amputee, a new socket made by conventional methods and a topographic model of the amputation stump [19].
• Estimating urea volume in amputees on peritoneal dialysis by modified anthropometric formulas [20].

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