PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the pars plana clip (PPC) in the Ahmed valve tube inserted via the pars plana in patients with secondary refractory glaucomas. METHODS Prospective and interventional case series that included 10 patients with secondary refractory glaucoma. The pars plana vitrectomy and the implant of the modified tube were performed during the same surgery. Contr...

1Surender Kumar, 2Saurav Banerjee, 2Hemlata Dwivedi, 3Tapas Gupta, 4Ardhendu Banerjee 1Postgraduate Trainee, Department of Prosthodontics, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 2Postgraduate Student, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3Professor, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Dr R Ahmed Dent...

This paper explores the relationship between feminism, women and marginalization in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and related laws and policies. Globally women comprise of approximately 50% of all HIV infections. 1 The status of marginalized women in the context of HIV is determined by a host of social, economic, and legal factors that make a person more marginalized and therefore more v...

Stroke affects around 20 million people around the world every year. Clinically, stroke is a result of brain damage due to the shortage of oxygen delivered to the nerve cells. To minimize suffering and costs related to the disease, extensive research is performed on different levels. The focus of our research is to achieve fundamental understanding on how the lack of oxygen in brain tissue acti...

The Idiocerinae of Pakistan are reviewed and a new species, Tasnimocerus sindhensis sp. nov. (Pakistan: Tandojam), is described and illustrated from Pakistan. Two new junior synonyms of Idioscopus nitidulus (Walker) are recognized: Idioscopus karachiensis Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. and I. freytagi Ahmed, Naheed & Ahmed syn. nov. Idioscopus nagpurensis (Pruthi) is newly recorded from Pakist...