Development and Validation of the “Keratoconus End-Points Assessment Questionnaire” (KEPAQ), a Disease-Specific Instrument for Evaluating Subjective Emotional Distress and Visual Function Through Rasch Analysis

Kepa Balparda,1,2 Tatiana Herrera-Chalarca,3 Laura Andrea Silva-Quintero,4 Sneider Alexander Torres-Soto,4 Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramírez5 1Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Black Mammoth Surgical, Medellín, Colombia; 2Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; 3Department of Clinical Research, Black Mammoth Surgical, M

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Early diagnosis of neural impairment in seropositive leprosy household contacts: The experience of a reference center in Brazil

IntroductionLeprosy is an infectious disease that remains with a high number of new cases in developing countries.Household contacts have a higher risk for the development of the disease, but the neural impairment in this group is not well elucidated yet.Here, we measured the chance of occurrence of peripheral neural impairment in asymptomatic lepr

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