OBJECTIVES To examine the prognosis for the fellow eye of patients with severe visual field loss in 1 eye from chronic forms of open-angle glaucoma, and to identify risk factors for visual field progression in such eyes. METHODS Review of 36 patients followed in an academic medical center with monocular severe visual field loss (Advanced Glaucoma Intervention Study score > or =12) from open-a...

OBJECTIVE Total bilirubin is beneficial for protecting cardiovascular diseases in adults. The authors aimed to investigate the association of total bilirubin, red blood cell, and hemoglobin levels with the prevalence of high blood pressure in children and adolescents. METHODS A total of 3776 students (aged from 6 to 16 years old) were examined using cluster sampling. Pre-high blood pressure a...

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) usually manifests with severe headaches, seizures, and visual disturbances due to uncontrollable hypertension. A patient (age in the early 60s) with a history of renal cell cancer presented with lower-extremity weakness and paresthesias. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thoracic spine revealed a T8 vertebral body metastatic lesion with ...

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background and aim: menopause refers to the cessation of menstruation due to hormonal changes and ovarian inactivity in women. these changes in hormone levels lead to various health consequences. this period of physiological changes usually starts in women with 40-50 years of age, and is characterized by the reduction of estrogen level. the mortality rate of premenopausal women, due to cardiova...

background: in this study the overall, age and sex prevalence of diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure were calculated and the association among some risk factors and these two diseases, occurring simultaneously, were studied. methods: in this cross-sectional study 3000 isfahanian men and women between the ages of 15-64 were investigated by using stratified sampling method with multi-stage ...

nowadays, consumers demand safe and minimally processed foodstuffs without additives and with extended shelf life. as high-pressure processing is used increasingly for the treatment of packed products, different packagings has been investigated with respect to their structural behaviour and stability under high-pressure processing. various defects may ocuure due to high pressure processing such...

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a condition characterised by headache, confusion, seizures and visual disturbances. This can occur in high blood pressure and eclampsia. Magnetic resonance imaging is the gold standard. Usually the symptoms tend to resolve after a period of time. It was fi rst described by Hinchey in 1996. We had a 22-years-old primi that has delivered a caesarean...