Bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris (BADI) is a new clinical entity of unknown etiology and is characterized by bilateral, symmetrical, and simultaneous depigmentation of the iris with focal or diffuse stromal atrophy; this condition generally has a good prognosis. We present a case of a 26-year-old woman who noted a spontaneous change in the iris color in both eyes in the last 2 months....

In this short note we give certain comments and improvements of some three-step iterative methods recently considered by N.A. Mir and T. Zaman (Appl. Math. Comput. (2007) doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.03.071).

BACKGROUND Alopecia areata (AA) is a common immune-mediated hair loss disorder. AA has a reported incidence of 0.1-0.2% with a lifetime risk of 1.7%. Histologically, AA is characterized by the accumulation of mononuclear cells around the bulb of the affected hair follicles. Corticosteroids are the most popular drugs for the treatment of this disease. Despite its high prevalence, currently avail...

Personal use only. For copyright permission information: Published online http://www.ajcconline.org © 2009 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses doi: 10.4037/ajcc2009311 Prepublished AJCC OnlineFirst July 27, 2009; Majumder Robert Garcia, Linda Jendresky, Larry Colbert, Althea Bailey, Mohammed Zaman and Mujbur Oral-Dental Care: A 48-Month Study Reducing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Th...

PURPOSE To report new cases of bilateral acute depigmentation of the iris (BADI), a recently described clinical entity, and to report the 4-year follow-up of 2 patients that was published previously. DESIGN A retrospective case series. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-six Turkish patients who were diagnosed with BADI between 2006 and 2008 and 2 patients who were reported previously. METHODS We reviewe...

Antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones (FQLs) are commonly used to treat ocular infections but are also known to cause dermal melanocyte toxicity. The release of dispersed pigments from the iris into the aqueous humor has been considered a possible ocular side effect of the systemic administration of FQLs such as Moxifloxacin, and this condition is known as bilateral acute iris transillumination ...

Blastocystis horninis is a common human parasite which is probably transmitted through a cystic stagevia the oral-fecal route (Boreham and Stenzel, 1993). A number of publications have appeared on the morphology of the cyst at the ultrastructure level (Stenzel and Boreham, 199 1 ; Zaman et 01, 1993; Stenzel et 01, 1993) but so far its light microscopic appearance has not been adequately describ...