purpose: to identify the postoperative surgical outcomes and the changes in deviation in patients treated by bilateral medial rectus (bmr) recession for small to large angle esotropia with a minimum follow-up of two years methods: in this retrospective and consecutive case series, we reviewed medical records of 130 patients who had recession surgery for correction of esotropia between 2001-2011...

background: medial educations' models should train physicians with competencies and commitment to meet health needs in the community. this social accountability in medical education is not a new concept but provides equity, quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness in health care system. the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of faculty members towards the situation and activiti...

purpose: to describe the clinical findings, preoperative radiologic findings and results of surgery in a patient with congenital bilateral hypoplasia of medial rectus muscle case report: a 50-year-old man presented with large angle incomitant horizontal deviation with marked deficit of adduction of both eyes. mri finding defined very thin medial rectus muscle. intraoperatively medial rectus mus...

Background: Medial educations' models should train physicians with competencies and commitment to meet health needs in the community. This social accountability in medical education is not a new concept but provides equity, quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness in health care system. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of faculty members towards the situation and activities in...

I am currently engaged in an NIH-funded research project with faculty at The University of Virginia and North Carolina State University that investigates the transgenerational effects of the plastic component, bisphenol A (BPA), on gene transcription in two regions of the brain: the medial preoptic area (MPOA) of the hypothalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). My participat...

alzheimer’s disease (ad) is a uniquely human disorder. although the pathogenesis of ad is not fully understood, growing evidence indicates that the deposition of beta-amyloid (aβ) and the local reactions of various cell types to this protein play major roles in the development of the disease. in the present study transgenic mice expressing mutant amyloid precursor protein (app) has been used. t...

the aim of this review article is to analyze the clinical effectiveness of total knee replacement (tkr) compared to unicompartmental knee replacement (ukr) in patients with medial unicompartmental osteoarthritis (muo) in terms of survival rates, revision rates and postoperative complications. the search engine was medline. the keywords used were: medial knee osteoarthritis. three thousand and n...

purpose: to present an extraocular muscle disinsertion in a pterygium surgery case report: a 61-year-old woman presenting an acute diplophia after a nasal pterygium surgery. the medical rectus muscle was cut during the primary surgery which was immediately reported and the muscle was reinserted to its original site and recovery was more or less obtained. conclusion: anatomical consideration met...

We are pleased to present a collection of papers on various topics within the area of Informatics and Information Technologies (IIT). The whole collection has been authored by students. We approached selected authors of papers originally presented at the annual IIT Student Research Conference, IIT.SRC 2011 which was organized by the Slovak University of Technology and attended by its students s...