PURPOSE Human cytomegalovirus retinitis is the most common blinding complication of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. However, the pathogenesis of the disease is poorly understood. The authors sought to characterize intraocular viral replication after systemic murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection in the normal and immunosuppressed Balb/c mouse. METHODS Normal or immunosuppressed mice (4...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate the effect on the application of low level laser therapy, in patients that have been previously intervened with a sagittal ramus split osteotomy and present neurosensory impairment due to this surgery, compared with placebo. STUDY DESIGN This preliminary study is a randomized clinical trial, with an experimental group (n=17) which received laser light and a control group (n...

Report of a Case. A 55-year-old hyperopic man with no significant ocular history was seen in consultation for photopsias of the left eye and was found to have degenerative retinoschisis bilaterally. The patient was asymptomatic in his right eye. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 OU. Anterior segment examination of both eyes revealed trace nuclear sclerosis. In both eyes, the schisis caviti...

BACKGROUND Local freezing cold injuries are common in the north and sequelae to cold injury can persist many years. Quantitative sensory testing (QST) can be used to assess neurosensory symptoms but has previously not been used on cold injury patients. OBJECTIVE To evaluate neurosensory sequelae after local freezing cold injury by thermal and vibrotactile perception thresholds and by symptom ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this retrospective study was to accumulate data regarding the quality of postoperative neurosensory function after inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) transposition for dental implant placement. METHODS The study included seven consecutive patients who underwent IAN transposition surgery for the insertion of a dental implant into the atrophic posterior mandible. Of these, ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To characterise the extension and progression of alteration of neurosensory layers following acute and chronic branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO) in vivo using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. METHODS In this observational case series, eight eyes with acute BRAO and nine eyes with chronic BRAO were analysed using a Spectralis Heidelberg Retina Angiograph (HRA)...

OBJECTIVES This article, the second in a two-part series, continues the discussion of inferior alveolar nerve lateralization/transposition for dental implant placement. The aim of this article is to review the scientific literature and clinical reports in order to analyse the neurosensory complications, risks and disadvantages of lateralization/transposition of the inferior alveolar nerve follo...

This article reviews the anatomy of the membranous labyrinth and demonstrates the ability of high-resolution MR imaging at 3T to visualize the neurosensory epithelium by using the latest fast spin-echo techniques.

Exudative retinal detachment occurs when fluid accumulates between the neurosensory retina and pigment epithelium. Ocular diseases or multisystem conditions such as nephrotic syndrome may lead to exudative detachment. This report describes a case of secondary minimal change disease, anasarca bilateral serous macular in an adult patient. A 75-year-old male patient presented emergency department ...