The prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in a population of geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand JM Carter, AC Irving, JP Bridges and BR Jones AIMS: To provide an estimate of the prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand and to evaluate the importance of examination of the ocular fundi of cats over eight years of...

BACKGROUND The ocular manifestations of HIV may lead to visual impairment or blindness. In India, patients typically initiate antiretroviral treatment (ART) with low CD4 cell counts when the risk of ocular complications may be high. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and types of HIV-associated ocular conditions in patients referred for ART in India. METHODS This cros...

chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. the main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. although both myasthenia gravis...

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects systemic parameters, laboratory findings, oral and other ocular surface parameters on epithelial damage in patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). Methods A total 82 dry eye disease (DED) pSS were enrolled study. Ocular measured by staining score (OSS). Systemic findings including serologic markers, collected. Other p...

PURPOSE To examine retrospectively the features of Behçet's disease patients with familial occurrence and make a comparison between familial Behçet's patients with ocular lesions and those without ocular lesions. METHODS We sent questionnaires about Behçet's disease patients with familial occurrence to 114 hospitals that reported treating such patients in previous nationwide hospital surveys,...

purpose: to evaluate the distribution of tnf-alpha promoter -1031t/c and -308g/a polymorphisms in an iranian population with behcet disease and ocular manifestation. method: we investigated the distribution of tnf-alpha promoter -1031t/c and -308g/a polymorphisms in 53 patients with behcet disease (bd) and 79 matched healthy controls, using the pcr-rflp technique. all subjects were from an iran...

Risk of multisystem disease in isolated ocular angioma (haemangioblastoma) EDITOR—Ocular angioma (haemangioblastoma) is the most common presenting feature of the multisystem famil-ial cancer syndrome von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL). 1 Recognition of VHL is important because of the opportunity to reduce morbidity and mortality by early diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma, phaeochromocytoma, and ce...

results this review explores the relationship between metabolic syndrome, including all its components, and various ocular conditions such as retinopathy, central retinal artery occlusion, cataract and elevated intraocular pressure. context metabolic syndrome (metabolic syndrome x) is a prevalent cluster of risk factors that include high bmi, hypertension, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia. i...