Muscle atrophy in diabetic patients with Charcot foot: a case-control study.

Purpose: To evaluate the distribution and severity of muscle atrophy in diabetic patients with active Charcot foot (CF) compared to diabetic patients without CF. Furthermore, to correlate the muscle atrophy with severity of CF disease.

Material/methods: In this retrospective study, MR images of 35 diabetic patients (21 male, median:62.

Auditory P3a response to native and foreign speech in children with or without attentional deficit.

The aim of this study was to investigate the attentional mechanism in speech processing of native and foreign language in children with and without attentional deficit. For this purpose, the P3a component, cognitive neuromarker of the attentional processes, was investigated in a two-sequence two-deviant oddball paradigm using Finnish and English speech items via event-related potentials (ERP) technique. The difference waves reflected the temporal brain dynamics of the P3a response in native and foreign language contexts.

Discriminatory Brain Processes of Native and Foreign Language in Children with and without Reading Difficulties.

The association between impaired speech perception and reading difficulty has been well established in native language processing, as can be observed from brain activity. However, there has been scarce investigation of whether this association extends to brain activity during foreign language processing. The relationship between reading skills and neuronal speech representation of foreign language remains unclear.

Brain Source Correlates of Speech Perception and Reading Processes in Children With and Without Reading Difficulties.

Neural correlates in reading and speech processing have been addressed extensively in the literature. While reading skills and speech perception have been shown to be associated with each other, their relationship remains debatable. In this study, we investigated reading skills, speech perception, reading, and their correlates with brain source activity in auditory and visual modalities.

Low-dose Magnesium Sulfate Versus High Dose in the Early Management of Rapid Atrial Fibrillation: Randomized Controlled Double-blind Study (LOMAGHI Study).

Objectives: We aim to determine the benefit of two different doses magnesium sulfate (MgSO ) compared to placebo in rate control of rapid atrial fibrillation (AF) managed in the emergency department (ED).

Methods: We undertook a randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial in three university hospital EDs between August 2009 and December 2014. Patients > 18 years with rapid AF (>120 beats/min) were enrolled and randomized to 9 g of intravenous MgSO (high-dose group, n = 153), 4.