Familial epistaxis is often encountered by Otolaryngologists. Osier in 1901 described a triad of symptoms consisting of epistaxis, positive family history and multiple telangiectasia. Harrison (1957) regards this phenomena as 'rare' and Mc Caffrey et al. (1977) calls it unusual Multiple Telangiectasia, the cause of which is unknown, has a dominant familial trait. It may be very easily missed wh...

Fig 1. Painful ulcers with eschars and granulation tissue on right arch of foot before first platelet-rich plasma therapy. L ivedoid vasculopathy is a chronic disorder diagnosed based on clinical features such as cutaneous ulcers, atrophic, stellate scars with peripheral telangiectasis and hyperpigmentation. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy has been successfully used in the treatment of vario...

Purpose. To evaluate the role of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in early detection of Chloroquine maculopathy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Methods. 40 left eyes of 40 female rheumatoid arthritis patients who received treatment chloroquine for more than one year were recruited in the study. All patients had no symptoms or signs of Chloroquine retinopathy. They we...

Following up on research suggesting an age-related reduction in the rightward extent of the perceptual span during reading (Rayner, Castelhano, & Yang, 2009), we compared old and young adults in an N + 2-boundary paradigm in which a nonword preview of word N + 2 or word N + 2 itself is replaced by the target word once the eyes cross an invisible boundary located after word N. The intermediate w...