PURPOSE To evaluate the incidence and prevalence of cataract formation, progression, and extraction in patients that underwent vitreoretinal procedures and to evaluate factors that can potentially predispose patients to postoperative cataracts. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of consecutive patients who underwent vitreoretinal surgery at the Yale Eye Center with at least 6 months of...

In order to fill in a decade-long information gap regarding the biological, serological and molecular data for plum tree viruses Bosnia Herzegovina, three-phase study combining symptom evaluation, assays with high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technology was conducted. The most frequently observed symptoms were discolorations form of ring patterns, bands irregular shapes, as well vein banding. Sh...

INTRODUCTION Pulse pressure variation (PPV) has been shown to predict fluid responsiveness in ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The present study was aimed at assessing the diagnostic accuracy of PPV for prediction of fluid responsiveness by using the grey zone approach in a large population. METHODS The study pooled data of 556 patients from nine French ICUs. Hemodynamic (PPV, c...

CMTC: Cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita PPV: Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis INTRODUCTION The coexistence of cutis marmorata telangiectatica congenita (CMTC) with Mongolian spots has been reported as a distinct type of phacomatosis pigmentovascularis (PPV), namely PPV type V or phacomatosis cesiomarmorata. PPV type V is a rare congenital vascular anomaly, with only 7 previous cases ment...

Plum pox virus (PPV) causes the most economically-devastating viral disease in Prunus species. Unfortunately, few natural resistance genes are available for the control of PPV. Recessive resistance to some potyviruses is associated with mutations of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) or its isoform eIF(iso)4E. In this study, we used an RNA silencing approach to manipulate the e...

OBJECTIVE To compare simultaneous measurements of pulse pressure variation (PPV) and pleth variability index (PVI) in patients undergoing spinal fusion. AIMS To determine if PVI can be used as a surrogate for PPV and also the influence of the prone position on these measurements. BACKGROUND Spine fusion is an involved surgical procedure requiring attention to fluid administration. Dynamic i...

Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) are responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Documentation of respiratory specimens can help for an appropriate clinical management with a significant effect on the disease progress in patient, the antimicrobial therapy used and the risk of secondary spread of infection. Here, we compared the performances of four commercial multiplex ki...

Porcine parvovirus (PPV) is a widespread infectious virus that causes serious reproductive diseases of swine and death of piglets. The gene coding for the major capsid protein VP2 of PPV was amplified using viral nucleic acid extract from swine serum and inserted into yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae expression plasmid. Recombinant PPV VP2 protein was efficiently expressed in yeast and purified u...

We report our recent experience with four cases of endophthalmitis (one male, three females) after 25-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV). One was a case of persistent cystoid macular edema caused by branch retinal vein occlusion, whereas the remaining three were cases of epiretinal membrane. Preoperative antibiotics before the first PPV procedure were not administered in three of the four cases....

Different mutants of an infectious full-length clone (p35PPV-NAT) of Plum pox virus (PPV) were constructed: three mutants with mutations of the assembly motifs RQ and DF in the coat protein gene (CP) and two CP chimeras with exchanges in the CP core region of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus and Potato virus Y. The assembly mutants were restricted to single infected cells, whereas the PPV chimeras ...