Affective response to eye contact and face recognition ability in children with ASD.

This study tested the hypothesis that affective arousal in response to eye contact is negatively associated with face identification skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Participants were 20 children and adolescents with ASD and 20 age- and IQ-matched typically developing (TD) children. Skin conductance response (SCR), a psychophysiological measure of autonomic arousal, was collected while participants viewed faces with gaze directed toward them and faces with gaze averted away from them.

Derivation of a formula to predict patient volume based on temperature at college football games.

Objective: We sought to explore the relationship between temperature and spectator illness at Division I college football games by deriving a formula to predict the number of patrons seeking medical care based on the ambient temperature and attendance of the game.

Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of medical records from 47 Division I college football games at two outdoor stadiums from 2001 through 2005. Any person presenting for medical care was counted as a patient seen.

The Legs For Life Screening for Peripheral Vascular Disease: results of a prospective study designed to improve patient compliance with physician recommendations.

Purpose: To determine how compliance with recommendations made by physicians during the 2000 Legs For Life National Screening for Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) and Leg Pain is affected through the use of (i) simple and concise patient information and recommendation cards and (ii) a "targeted" postscreening follow-up plan.

Materials And Methods: Patients were initially screened for PVD by completion of the Legs For Life Risk Factor Assessment form and determination of bilateral ankle/brachial indexes (ABIs). Each patient then met with an interventional radiologist or vascular surgeon.

Treatment of hemodialysis catheter-associated fibrin sheaths by rt-PA infusion: critical analysis of 124 procedures.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the efficacy of a low-dose, 3-hour infusion of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) for the treatment of hemodialysis catheter (HDC)-associated fibrin sheaths. This report expands the authors' experience with this technique over that previously reported.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-five patients with end-stage renal disease (38 women, 17 men) undergoing catheter-directed hemodialysis treatment were evaluated for 124 episodes of HDC dysfunction.

The Legs for Life screening for peripheral vascular disease: compliance with physician recommendations in moderate- and high-risk assessed patients.

Purpose: To determine compliance within a community with recommendations made by physicians during the 1999 Legs for Life National Screening for Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) and Leg Pain.

Materials And Methods: Patients were initially screened for PVD by completion of the Legs for Life risk factor questionnaire and determination of bilateral ankle/brachial indexes (ABIs). Each patient subsequently met with an interventional radiologist or vascular surgeon.