purpose: to report clinical outcomes of crystalline lens extraction and iris claw artisan intraocular lens (iol) implantation in patients with lens subluxation secondary to marfan syndrome.  methods: this retrospective study enrolled 14 eyes of 12 marfan patients with lens subluxation who underwent crystalline lens removal and artisan iol implantation. pre- and post-operative data, including pa...

This article has two coordinate goals: to undergird the functionalist understanding of professionalism with classical normative theory and to advance the classical theory of civic virtue with the insights of modern social science. More specifically, this article seeks to connect classical theories about the care of the body and the soul with modern theories of market and government failure. The...

PURPOSE To present a case of traumatic dislocation of an Ophtec Artisan phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) and an analysis of the endothelial cell count. METHODS The patient presented with blurred vision in his left eye after sustaining a brow laceration. History included uncomplicated bilateral implantation of an Artisan PIOL to correct myopia. RESULTS The brow laceration was sutured and topic...

Collaboration between different professions in community care for older people is often both difficult and complex. In this project, a participatory action research (PAR) was conducted in order to support the professions involved in the care for older people to develop individualized health and social care plans. Cases from daily work were discussed in different professional groups over a perio...

The complex societies we now inhabit oblige us to question, reformulate or even rupture the traditional socio-political frameworks in which social pedagogy and professions have been developed theories that explain justify them constructed. These institutionalised concepts, practices methodologies often no longer fit within complexity of today’s constantly changing realities. aim this article is...