Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes dependency and mortality in India. Chronic stroke defined as 6 months to years from time onset. Structural impairment which occurs lead complex nature functional limitations. High blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, vessel diseases, obesity are a few risk factors that can cause stroke. Once patient goes into chronic phase, wide range problems mobil...

RATIONALE Cognitive and psychiatric morbidity is common and potentially modifiable after acute lung injury (ALI). However, practical measures of neuropsychological function for use in multicenter trials are lacking. OBJECTIVES To determine whether a validated telephone-based neuropsychological test battery is feasible in a multicenter trial. To determine the frequency and risk factors for lon...

With the possibility existing that survivors of the respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn may have lung changes secondary to therapy, chest roentgenograms, PaO, and A-a oxygen gradients in 12 selected patients who survived hyaline-membrane disease were observed and measured. Three of four infant survivors had abnormal chest roentgenograms for as long as two years. Abnormally large A-a gr...

Many long term sequelae result from previous treatment for malignancy in childhood. However, little information exists on cardiopulmonary response and energy expenditure during exercise and their possible associations with excess body fat. Measurements of body composition and exercise capacity both at low intensity and maximal aerobic capacity were made on 56 long term survivors of childhood ma...