Publications by authors named "Michelle C Burke"
Background: The 24-item Early-Onset Scoliosis Questionnaire (EOSQ-24) and 22-item Scoliosis Research Society (SRS-22) questionnaire measure health-related quality of life in patients with scoliosis. The EOSQ-24 has been recently validated in early-onset scoliosis (EOS), including congenital scoliosis (CS). The SRS-22 has been validated in idiopathic scoliosis.
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- EOSQ-24 is a questionnaire validated for early onset scoliosis (EOS) and congenital scoliosis (CS), filled out by caregivers.
- SRS-22, which is validated for idiopathic scoliosis, is completed by the patients themselves.
- The study found a strong correlation between scores from EOSQ-24 and SRS-22 for patients with CS, suggesting that cognitively normal children with EOS due to CS could potentially fill out the SRS-22.
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- The study addresses the inconsistency in measuring angulation for pediatric proximal humerus fractures (PHFs) and proposes a new standardized method to improve agreement among different raters.
- Seven raters assessed 26 shoulder X-rays from patients aged 10 to 16, using both their own methods and the proposed standardized method to evaluate angulation, along with the Neer and Horowitz classification systems.
- Results showed excellent reliability with the standardized method, while the existing classification systems displayed only fair to moderate reliability, indicating the proposed method's potential for better consistency in practice.
Study Design: Retrospective comparative study.
Objective: The aim of this study was to demonstrate that intrathecal morphine (ITM) and oral analgesics provide effective pain control after posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), and this protocol has a low complication rate so patients can be admitted to a general care floor.
Summary Of Background Data: Previous studies have shown that ITM combined with intravenous patient-controlled analgesia or epidural infusion (EPI) provides effective pain control after PSF for AIS.
Study Design: Prospective comparative study.
Objective: To evaluate whether weight percentile (WP) increases after vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib (VEPTR) insertion, and whether WP correlates with nutrition laboratories and pulmonary function.
Summary Of Background Data: Children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome often have "failure to thrive" (WP ≤5).
Considerable evidence suggests that dynorphin and neurokinin B (NKB) neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus participate in the sex-steroid regulation of reproduction. In the present study, we used dual-label immunofluorescence to explore the distribution of prodynorphin and proNKB immunoreactivity in the rat hypothalamus. Additionally, we investigated whether arcuate prodynorphin-ir (immunoreactive) neurons expressed the neurokinin 3 receptor (NK3R) or nuclear estrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha).
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