A 51-year old man presented with vertical and torsional diplopia after reduction of a blowout fracture at another hospital one year ago. He had no anormalies of head position and 14 prism diopters (PD) right hypertropia (RHT) in the primary position. In upgaze no vertical deviation was found, and hyperdeviation on downgaze was 35PD. Bielschowsky head tilt test showed a negative response. Distin...

We consider effects of zero-mean additive noise on systems that are undergoing supercritical blowout bifurcation, i.e., where a chaotic attractor in an invariant subspace loses transverse stability to a nearby on-off intermittent attractor. We concentrate on the low noise limit and two statistical properties of the trajectories; the variance of the normal component and the mean first crossing t...

BACKGROUND We conducted this study to identify the correlation between the time to surgery and that to recovery from postoperative diplopia. METHODS In the current single-center, retrospective study, we enrolled a total of 11 patients (n=11) who were diagnosed with white-eyed blowout fracture and underwent surgical operation at our institution between January 2009 and January 2013. To identif...

PURPOSE Blowout fracture characterized by concurrent floor and medial wall fractures is a rare entity. We compared surgical outcomes between a single approach and a double approach in patients with orbital fracture by measuring the postoperative orbital volume. METHODS We confirmed that 21 (8.5%) of a total of 246 patients with orbital fractures had fractures of the medial wall and floor thro...

In order to meet a high reliability requirement of subsea drilling, a redundant software system for subsea Blowout Preventers (BOP), including control logics, HMI programs, remote access and redundant databases are developed. The Bayesian networks for control logics, HMI programs and redundant databases are built and then the whole Bayesian networks are established. The quantitative reliability...