Eye-Related Emergency Department Visits and The Opioid Epidemic: a 10-Year Analysis.

Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of Emergency Department (ED) visits related to opioid abuse with primary ophthalmic diagnoses in the United States (US).

Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study used National ED Sample (NEDS) (2006-2015), a representative sample of all US EDs, to analyze and compare the epidemiology of primary ophthalmic diagnoses in opioid abusers and a control group of non-opioid users. National incidence and descriptive statistics were calculated for demographics and prevalent diagnoses.

Impact of Detecting Occult Pathologic Nodal Disease During Resection for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.

Background: Lymph node (LN) involvement is a poor prognostic factor for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). However, to our knowledge, postresection outcomes of node-negative (cN0/pN0), occult pathologic nodal disease (cN0/pN+), and clinical node-positive disease (cN+) have not been compared to date.

Patients And Methods: The National Cancer Data Base was queried for newly diagnosed, resected MPM with known clinical/pathologic LN information.