Congenital conjunctival cyst detected by prenatal ultrasound.

Purpose: The purpose of this manuscript is to report a rare case of an orbital cyst detected intrauterine with sonography.

Observation: A 23-year-old female presented for routine prenatal monitoring when an orbital cyst was detected with a transabdominal ultrasound. Uncomplicated cesarean section was performed at 38 weeks gestation with proptosis of the left globe being noted on ophthalmic examination of the newborn.

A Survey of Pediatric Ophthalmologists to Assess Practice Patterns for Primary Surgical Management of Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction.

Purpose: To survey current practice patterns of pediatric ophthalmologists regarding primary surgical management of infantile dacryostenosis.

Methods: Responses to a five-question survey were cross-tabulated to compare surgery preferences across patient age ranges and intubation method. Surveys were submitted to members of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus following institutional review board approval.

Associations between adiposity and indicators of thyroid status in children and adolescents.

Background: In adults, obesity is associated with abnormalities of thyroid function; there are fewer studies in paediatric cohorts.

Objectives: To examine associations of weight and adiposity with indices of thyroid function and thyroid-related metabolic factors in children.

Design/methods: A sample of 1203 children without obesity (body mass index [BMI] < 95th percentile; N = 631) and with obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile; N = 572), age 5-18 years, had height and weight measured (to calculate BMI-Z score for age and sex) and had blood collected in the morning for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine (FT4) and leptin.

[Antigenic activity and the reactogenicity of a concentrated, purified, UV-inactivated cultured rabies vaccine].

The results of the study of concentrated, purified, UV-inactivated cell-culture rabies vaccine, obtained from strain Vnukovo-22, passage 33-40, in the primary culture of Syrian hamster kidney cells, demonstrated the pronounced antigenic potency of this vaccine: when introduced intramuscularly in 3-4 injections at certain intervals, it induced the production of virus-neutralizing antibodies in high titers. In tests on volunteers the vaccine proved to be nonreactogenic.

[Antigenic activity and the reactogenicity of UV ray-inactivated antirabies vaccine from the brain of sheep].

Tests in volunteers showed that the reactogenicity of rabies vaccine prepared from sheep brain and inactivated with ultraviolet rays was not greater than the reactogenicity of Fermi vaccine. At the same time it was found to have a higher activity when injected both in the form of 5% suspension (in full and decreased doses) and with brain tissue content as low as 2.5%.