BACKGROUND Leprosy remains a health problem in many countries, with difficulties in diagnosis resulting in delayed treatment and more severe disabilities. Antibodies against several Mycobacterium leprae antigens have, however, shown value as diagnostic and/or prognostic markers. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate serum immunoglobulin (Ig) IgM and IgG subclass reactivity agai...

PURPOSE To study the metrics of lid saccades in blepharoptosis and to distinguish any differences in the dynamics of eyelid movements that are related to the cause of blepharoptosis and to aging. METHODS The lid and vertical eye saccades of 7 patients with congenital blepharoptosis and those of 18 patients with aponeurogenic blepharoptosis, either involutional or rigid-contact-lens-induced, w...

F acial nerve palsy causes lagophtalmia of the upper lid (Fig. 1). In addition to being an esthetic deformity, it may lead to recurrent keratitis, keukoma, conjunctivitis, and even blindness. In facial palsy, overaction of the levator palpebrae muscle is present. Closure of the eye and downward movement of the lid can be achieved by adding weight to the upper lid. This article describes a techn...

A 4-day-old baby girl had restricted movement of the left lower lid, giving the impression that the left eye was larger than the right. She was a full-term baby delivered by Caesarean section. Examination Movements of the left lower lid were restricted. There was a clear area of sclera between the cornea and lower lid and the lid seemed to be fixed to the orbital margin (Fig. i), and could not ...

Understanding and characterizing the subspaces of adversarial examples aid in studying the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial perturbations. Very recently, Ma et al. (2018) proposed to use local intrinsic dimensionality (LID) in layer-wise hidden representations of DNNs to study adversarial subspaces. It was demonstrated that LID can be used to characterize the adversarial...

The aim of this work was to study the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of bupivacaine (BUP) and lidocaine (LID) administered separately in rabbits using microdialysis with retrodialysis calibration. Microdialysis probe and catheters were inserted under control of the view in the intrathecal or epidural spaces. The epidural disposition of BUP and LID after epidural ...

Growing evidence suggests that abnormal synaptic plasticity of cortical neurons underlies levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) in Parkinson's disease (PD). Spine morphology reflects synaptic plasticity resulting from glutamatergic transmission. We previously reported that enlargement of the dendritic spines of intratelencephalic-type (IT) neurons in the primary motor cortex (M1) is linked to the d...

NEW FEATURES FOR AUTOMATIC TEXT INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION A. Nagesh1 and V. Kamakshi Prasad2 1Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India E-mail: [email protected] 2Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India E-mail: [email protected] The objective of this paper is to explore new feature vectors for Automatic Text Independent Language Identif...

The efficacy of different techniques of facial nerve block for cataract surgery was investigated. Forty four patients underwent either modified O'Brien, Atkinson, van Lint, or lid blocks. Intentional muscle activity of the orbicularis oculi muscle was recorded and the area under the EMG curve calculated for quantitative comparison of muscle activity between the groups before and after injection...

The volume of the levator superior rectus muscle complex was determined from computed tomography scans of 152 orbits from 76 patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy. Clinically observed lid retraction and lid lag did not correlate with the levator/superior rectus muscle volume and did not correlate with limitation of vertical eye movements or inferior rectus muscle volume. These results do not sup...