abstract oculocardiac reflex (ocr) sometimes occurs as a result of pressure on the eye or traction of the intraorbital surrounding structures during ophthalmic surgery. this can result in bradycardiac arrhythmia and cardiac arrest. a 45-year-old female was undergoing an elective squint correction surgery of one eye under local anaesthesia in a private hospital in december 2013. the patient was ...

This article reviews the current knowledge of both transient and long term abnormalities of the newborn pituitary-thyroid axis. These defects are grouped according to their presenting characteristics in the neonatal screen­ ing programs. Some of the controversies regarding etiology, pathophysi­ ology, and possible treatments are discussed.

The principle of anaesthesia for open-heart surgery is based on simplicity, safty and light­plane of anaesthesia. As a result of the special pathophysiology, grave general status, compli­cations threatening these patients during and after the operation and the abundance of medicines available nowadays, it is very important for the anaesthetist to be acquainted with the pathophysiological and ph...

The prototype of a system to assist the physicians in differential diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders of blood cells from digitized specimens is presented. The user selects the region of interest (ROI) in the image which is then analyzed with a fast, robust color segmentel: Queries in a database of validated cases can be formulated in terms of shape (similarity invariant Fourier descrip...

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Maxcy defines epidemiology as "the field of science dealing with the relationship of the various factors which determine the fre­ quencies and distributions of an infectious process, a disease, or a physiologic state in a human community." He then proceeds to consider these factors under various head­ ings which I believe will be useful ones for us to follow in this discussion of the epidemi­ o...