ABSTRACT Non-invasive bioengineering technologies continuously discovered and developed in recent decades provide a significant input to research development and remarkably contribute to the improvement of medical education and care to our patients. AIM Assessing skin hydration by using the capacitance method for a group of patients with allergic contact dermatitis versus healthy subjects, be...

We prospectively studied for three years the optical correction by contact lenses of 83 aphakic infants (141 eyes) who generally also had systemic and other ocular anomalies: 85% of the patients tolerated the lens wear for the whole study period. Complications occurred in 46 eyes and led to cessation of lens wear in two cases. Ten patients abandoned the lenses for other reasons. Thirty-four eye...

dermatitis to clavulanic acid Young Hoon Kim 1 , Joo Yeon Ko 1 , Yong Seok Kim 1 Young Suck Ro 1 1 Department of Dermatology, Hanyang University Hospital, Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-ku, Seoul 133-792, Korea Correspondence to Young Suck Ro, MD, PhD Department of Dermatology Hanyang University Hospital Haengdang-dong, Sungdong-ku Seoul 133-792 Korea Tel: +82 2 2290 8441 Fax: +82 2 2291 9619 e-mail:...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Both atopy and diseases from the spectrum of dermatitis and eczema are among the most frequent clinical problems worldwide; nevertheless, they are still poorly defined and too frequently misdiagnosed. In the present review, studies pertinent to this topic were systematized and critically assessed with particular attention to definitions of relevant diseases. RECENT FINDINGS ...

Evidence for the effectiveness of patch testing and the need for an expanded series that provides experience and evidence-based suggestions for an extended patch testing series are examined in this review. Many of those testing with shorter allergen series are interested in expanding the spectrum of patch testing. The American Contact Dermatitis Society (ACDS) Core Allergen Series Group has arr...

Within a few minutes of wear, contact lenses become rapidly coated with a variety of tear film components, including proteins, lipids, and mucins. Tears have a rich and complex composition, allowing a wide range of interactions and competitive processes, with the first event observed at the interface between a contact lens and tear fluid being protein adsorption. Protein adsorption on hydrogel ...

Background: The use of temporary henna tattoos has increased dramatically in recent years, especially in children and adolescents. To obtain a darker colour and prolong the life of the tattoo, red henna, a plant-derived substance, is typically added to para-phenylenediamine (PPD). The mixture is called temporary black henna tattoo (TBHT). Because of its molecular characteristics, PPD can induce...

Dr. Lewis Webb Hill of Boston, Massachusetts, was honored by the Section on Allergy of the American Academy of Pediatrics at a meeting held in Chicago, Illinois, October 19, 1958. Dr. Arthur J. Horesh of Cleveland, Ohio, National Chairman of the Allergy Section, presented Dr. Hill with a scroll which read as follows: By unanimous vote of the Section on Allergy of the American Academy of Pediatr...

The stochastic nature of single-molecule charge transport measurements requires collection of large data sets to capture the full complexity of a molecular system. Data analysis is then guided by certain expectations, for example, a plateau feature in the tunnelling current distance trace, and the molecular conductance extracted from suitable histogram analysis. However, differences in molecula...

We give an analysis of a variant of the contact process on finite graphs, allowing for non-uniform cure rates, modeling antidote distribution. We examine an inoculation scheme using PageRank vectors which quantify the correlations among vertices in the contact graph. We show that for a contact graph on n nodes we can select a set H of nodes to inoculate such that with probability at least 1−2 ,...