Effects of intravitreal triamcinolone injection on macular edema and visual prognosis in central retinal vein occlusion.

Aim: To determine the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone injection on macular edema and the visual prognosis in cases with CRVO.

Methods: Eyes with CRVO were classified as ischemic or nonischemic according to extend of retinal capillary nonperfusion. The patients received intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection (4 mg/0.

[Delayed pericardial tamponade following a stab wound to a branch of the right coronary artery].

A 45-year-old man was attacked with a knife and suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. After surgical treatment and hospitalization for 9 days he was discharged in a stable condition. The following day he was found dead in his apartment.

Volumetric MRI assessment of brain regions in patients with refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder.

No prior study to date has examined the comparisons of the structures that have been implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in patients with refractory OCD, those who are treatment-responded and healthy controls concurrently. Therefore, we performed a volumetric MRI study in patients with refractory OCD, those with treatment responding OCD and healthy controls. Morphometric MRI was used to compare in thirty patients with OCD and ten healthy controls.

Effects of omeprazole and gentamicin on the biochemical and histopathological alterations of the hypoxia/ reoxygenation induced intestinal injury in newborn rats.

We utilized a newborn rat model of hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) that resembles human necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) to investigate the effects of omeprazole and/or gentamicin on the formation of free oxygen radicals (FOR) and bowel histopathology. For H/R, 1-day-old rats were placed into a chamber of 100% CO2 for 5 min, then they were reoxygenized for the next 5 min. The rats (n = 70) were divided into seven groups: group 1 (control), group 2 (H/R), group 3 (omeprazole), group 4 (H/R + omeprazole), group 5 (gentamicin), group 6 (H/R + gentamicin), group 7 (H/R + omeprazole + gentamicin).

Electroconvulsive therapy in drug-induced psychiatric states and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

In the late-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IDP), comorbid conditions such as depression and drug-induced psychosis may be observed. A patient with Parkinson disease, major depression, and paranoid psychosis who developed neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) as the result of the sudden termination of high-dose (1200 mg/d) levodopa treatment is presented in this report. Because the patient did not respond to other treatment modalities, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was applied, and a rapid improvement was observed both in the patient's NMS and also in Parkinson's and psychiatric symptoms, with no additional side effects other than transient post-ictal confusions.

Renal involvement of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and its prognostic effect in childhood.

Objective: To evaluate renal involvement in childhood lymphoma and define its prognostic effects.

Patients And Methods: One hundred and four patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and renal involvement on admission to a single center between 1972 and 2003 were evaluated retrospectively. Blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, uric acid, electrolytes, and lactate dehydrogenase levels, as well as urinalysis, were evaluated.

Optical coherence tomographic assessment of diabetic macular edema: comparison with fluorescein angiographic and clinical findings.

Purpose: To compare the optical coherence tomographic (OCT) features with clinical and fluorescein angiographic (FA) findings in patients with diabetic retinopathy.

Methods: In a retrospective study ophthalmologic examination together with FA and OCT images were obtained from 195 eyes of 110 patients with different stages of diabetic retinopathy and OCT images were obtained from 40 eyes of 20 control subjects. Fluorescein leakage characteristics were organized into five groups: no leakage (1), focal (2), diffuse (3), combined focal+diffuse leakage (4) and cystoid (5).

Non-ketotic hyperglycaemia presenting as epilepsia partialis continua.

Epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) is a rare epileptic syndrome, observed in various cortical lesions and also in metabolic disorders. We report the case of a 57-year-old patient with EPC as the first manifestation of hyperosmolar non-ketotic hyperglycaemia (NKH) of diabetes mellitus. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were normal.

Evaluation of frozen subepithelial connective tissue grafts to increase the zone of attached gingiva. Report of 5 cases.

Background: In the past decade, gingival tissue has been regenerated using subepithelial connective tissue grafts (SECT). This report presents the use of frozen subepithelial connective tissue (FSECT) for increasing the zone of attached keratinized gingiva (KG).

Methods: Five cases, 4 females and 1 male, aged 55 to 73 years, presented with inadequate attached KG.

Examination of adolescents' negative thoughts, depressive mood, and family environment.

The focus of this study was the relationship among adolescents' negative thoughts, depressive mood, and family environment. Three hundred eleven students (aged 16 and 17 years) in public and private schools served as subjects. They were administered the Family Environment Scale, the Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire, and the Beck Depression Inventory.

A technique for laparoscopic transplantation of frozen-banked ovarian tissue.

Objective: To describe a laparoscopic technique for transplanting frozen-banked ovarian tissue.

Design: Case study.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation: basic aspects.

Animal studies and studies using human ovarian xenografts in immunodeficient mice have shown that ovarian transplantation is feasible. In this manuscript, we present the first and limited experience with ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation in the human. Despite the progress, more basic studies are needed to improve the survival of primordial follicles during and after the cryopreservation process.

Psychosocial aspects and psychiatric disorders in children with thalassemia major.

beta-thalassemia major (TM), a chronic, genetically determined hematological disorder, has received little investigation on the psychological aspects of the disease and the psychosocial adjustment of patients with this anemia. In the present study, the aim was to assess the mental capacity, self-image, hopelessness and anxiety displayed by children who suffered from TM, and to investigate the existence of psychiatric disorders in these children. Twenty-five children (16 boys and 9 girls) with TM, 12.