A 2-year-old girl presented to the emergency department at 3:00 h with severe pain in her right eye and a rust coloured, blood stained frothy discharge that had woken her. An examination of her eye revealed a shiny metallic looking foreign body, which was immediately removed by the on-call ophthalmologist. That morning the patient underwent ocular examination under anaesthesia and was found to ...

Stevens Johnson syndrome has been reported in 0.3% of patients taking Nevirapine as non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor in the Highly Active AntiRetroviral Therapy within first four to six weeks of treatment. We report one such uncommon case in a young adolescent HIV infected male who developed generalized skin eruptions with mucous membrane involvement of genitalia, oral cavity and ...

Crystalline samples of D-xylose have been vaporized by laser ablation and probed in the gas phase using Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. The rotational spectrum revealed the existence of two α-D-xylopyranose conformers stabilized by the anomeric effect and cooperative hydrogen bond networks. The experiment spectroscopically tracked fine structural changes upon clockwise and countercloc...

Book Reviews Livres nouveaux · Buchbesprechungen Stephen L. Bosniak (ed) Complex Socket Deformities Advances in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery McGraw-Hill Medical Publ.. Nürnberg 1992. IX+ 310 pp. ISBN 0–07–105383–2 The actual contributions are introduced by a reprint of Kennedy’s important paper (Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 1964;62:469–510). He summarized the international knowledge...

This study describes 17 cases of atopic keratoconjunctivitis in adults. In 8 cases the clinical appearances were nonspecific and sufficiently different from vernal keratoconjunctivitis to make diagnosis difficult. These atypical cases often showed a fine papillary conjunctival reaction on the upper tarsus, subconjunctival scarring, and in 1 case severe symblepharon. Corneal features included co...

Aim: To evaluate the results of conjunctival autograft transplantation (CAT) combined with amniotic membrane (AMT) surgery in recurrent pterygium cases. Methods: This is a retrospective interventional case series involving patients admitted to our clinic pterygium. Patients' examination and postoperative findings were taken through standard slit-lamp examinations. Fourteen eyes 14 included stud...

the past decade has witnessed the revival of amniotic membrane transplantation (amt) in ophthalmology. the importance of amt is due to its ability to reduce scarring and inflammation and to enhance wound healing and epithelialization, and also its anti-microbial properties. amniotic membrane has recently been used as a substrate for culturing limbal stem cells for transplantation. it has been u...