Benefits of Early Mobilization After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of early mobilization after pediatric liver transplantation in the PICU.

Design: A 70-month retrospective before-after study.

Setting: Medical and surgical PICU with 20 beds at a tertiary children's hospital.

Early Mobilization after Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

 This study aims to evaluate the impact of early mobilization (EM) after pediatric liver transplantation in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).  A 14-month prospective before and after study.  Multivalent PICU with 20 beds at a tertiary children's hospital.

[Summary of the Profiles of 22 Children with Traumatic Brain Injury Tacted with the Japanese Version of the WISC-IV].

The Japanese version of the Wechsler intelligence scale for children-fourth edition (WISC-IV) is often used to assess cognitive dysfunction in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI). To reveal the characteristics of cognitive impairment in pediatric TBI, we retrospectively analyzed the results of 22 children with TBI on the WISC-IV that was conducted at the Developmental Evaluation Center of the National Center for Child Health and Development over three years from July 2011 to July 2014. It has been hypothesized that the WISC-IV is limited for revealing neuropsychological dysfunction after traumatic brain injury.

[Case of long-term metamorphopsia caused by multiple cerebral infarction].

This report presents the case of a 79-year-old right-handed woman. One day on waking, she realized that the faces of her family members appeared distorted. She consulted an ophthalmologist at a nearby clinic in the vicinity and was diagnosed with left homonymous hemianopsia.

[Lowered VIQ level following traumatic brain injury].

A patient with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often associated with incidence of cognitive dysfunction as a sequela. We have conducted WAIS-R to 237 patients who were diagnosed as TBI at the Kanagawa Rehabilitation Hospital in order to assess their intellectual function. Twelve patients, whose VIQ being marked significantly lower than PIQ, were retrospectively analyzed in terms of their Functional Independence Measure (FIM), neuropsychological test results and lesions found in diagnostic images.

[Cognitive dysfunction in 32 diffuse axonal injury cases].

In acute stage of traumatic brain injury, it is not easy to diagnose diffuse axonal injury (DAI) by computer imaging. Even in chronic stage, DAIs occasionally show no remarkable abnormality by ordinal CT or MRI images. We retrospectively studied 32 DAI cases by the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), a battery of neuropsychological tests and CT or MRI films of acute and chronic phase.

Dynamic postural control in patients with hemiparesis.

Objective: Decreased postural stability is a common problem associated with hemiparesis secondary to stroke. The purpose of this study was to evaluate dynamic postural control in patients with hemiparesis and in normal subjects matched for age.

Design: Quantitative posturography (EquiTest System) was performed to assess the response of subjects to sudden perturbations.

[A case of falcotentorial meningioma with visual allesthesia].

Visual allesthesia, in which visual images are transposed from one homonymous half-field of visual field to another, is a rare phenomenon. Palinopsia is the persistence or recurrence of visual images after the exciting stimulus object has been removed. Some authors have reported these phenomena, but these pathophysiology has not been understood.