Publications by authors named "L BALBI"
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- The Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility (PLUS-M) was translated and culturally adapted into Brazilian Portuguese to evaluate mobility among prosthesis users, as it had not been previously available in that language.
- The study followed international standards for translation and examined the PLUS-M’s validity and reliability by correlating it with established mobility tests, showing strong correlations with the 2-Minute Walk Test and health survey scores.
- Results indicated that the adapted PLUS-M/BR-12 is a valid and reliable tool for assessing mobility in Brazilian adults with lower limb amputations, making it useful for clinical settings.
The adaptive immune response plays a vital role in eliminating infected and aberrant cells from the body. This process hinges on the presentation of short peptides by major histocompatibility complex Class I molecules on the cell surface. Immunopeptidomics, the study of peptides displayed on cells, delves into the wide variety of these peptides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: After lower limb amputations, a decrease in gait capacity, even with prostheses, is common and persistent. Functional ability involves multiple constructs; therefore, several outcome measures, such as performance tests or self-report questionnaires, should be used to evaluate people with amputation who use prostheses.
Objective: To analyze the convergent construct validity of the Brazilian version of the Houghton scale in a sample of lower limb prosthesis users.
Dual-mode contrast agents (CAs) have great potential for improving diagnostics. However, the effectiveness of CAs is strictly related to both the solution adopted to merge the two agents into a single probe unit, and the ratio between the two agents. In this study, two dual-mode CAs for simultaneous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound imaging (UI) were assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFive hundred and thirty-seven children admitted to Hospital Dr. Notti and diagnosed with invasive pneumococcal disease between 1993 and 2011 were studied. Their median age was 19 months (range= 0-192 months); 34.
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