The Witkop syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the absence of several teeth and abnormalities of the nails. This is the first report of a rare genetic tooth and nail syndrome diagnosed in a 2.5-year-old boy with early exfoliation of the primary canine, absence of the primary incisors, and nail dysplasia. A homozygous mutation was identified in 3'-UTR of MSX1 gene in ...

Results: A total of 30 eyes with pseudoexfoliation of 28 patients underwent planned combined procedure. Sixteen (53.33%) eyes achieved 6/18 or better vision postoperatively. The mean preoperative intraocular pressure was 25 mm Hg (range, 14 to 38 mm Hg), which decreased to a mean postoperative intraocular pressure of 15.1 mm Hg (range, 8 to 18 mm Hg). Intraoperative complications occurred in 4 ...

The field responsible for the cosmological curvature perturbations generated during a stage of primordial inflation might be the “curvaton”, a field different from the inflaton field. To keep the effective mass of the curvaton small enough compared to the Hubble rate during inflation one may not invoke supersymmetry since the latter is broken by the vacuum energy density. In this paper we propo...