OBJECTIVE To report experience with the treatment of complications of vinyl glove ingestion in mentally retarded patients with pica. DESIGN A retrospective case series. SETTING Two university-affiliated hospitals. PATIENTS Five mentally retarded patients, 4 with a history of pica, who were admitted for the management of complications resulting from the ingestion of vinyl gloves. MAIN OU...

The accuracy and stability of self-image of 21 mentally retarded adults and 24 nonretarded adults were studied. The subjects were confronted with a distorting mirror that made their faces look either fatter or slimmer. Results showed that retarded adults saw themselves as more distorted than did non-retarded adults. Significant sex differences in the retarded population were found. Both the pre...

High resolution comparative genomic hybridisation (HR-CGH) is a diagnostic tool in our clinical cytogenetics laboratory. The present survey reports the results of 253 clinical cases in which 47 abnormalities were detected. Among 144 dysmorphic and mentally retarded subjects with a normal conventional karyotype, 15 (10%) had small deletions or duplications, of which 11 were interstitial. In addi...

Improving the motor fitness of mentally retarded children is of importance for their health. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a chosen physical and motor fitness training program on the static and dynamic balance of mentally retarded female students. Thirty-eight high school students (average age 18.63 ± 1.3 years, average height 153.19 ± 6.98 cm, and average weight 58.95 ± ...

OBJECTIVE Having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have been focused over the years. Personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. Thus, the current study was conducted to estimate psychometric characteristics of "personal well-being index-adult" (PWI-A) in mothers of mentally retarded student...