Pachychoroid Associated With Acute Retinal Necrosis Secondary to Varicella Zoster Virus.

To report a case of pachychoroid associated with acute retinal necrosis secondary to the varicella zoster virus (VZV). A retrospective review of a single case was performed. The VZV-related acute retinal necrosis with pachychoroid resolved with quiescence of the acute infectious process.

Implantation Site of a Port Delivery System With Ranibizumab: Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography Evaluation.

To determine whether anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) can be used to obtain noninvasive high-resolution images for monitoring the implantation site of a port delivery system with ranibizumab (PDS). Six eyes from the Archway phase 3 trial were imaged with AS-OCT after surgical implantation of the PDS and at regular follow-up visits. AS-OCT was helpful in monitoring the status of the overlying conjunctiva and Tenon capsule after implantation of the PDS.

Disparate Antibiotic Resistance Gene Quantities Revealed across 4 Major Cities in California: A Survey in Drinking Water, Air, and Soil at 24 Public Parks.

Widespread prevalence of multidrug and pandrug-resistant bacteria has prompted substantial concern over the global dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Environmental compartments can behave as genetic reservoirs and hotspots, wherein resistance genes can accumulate and be laterally transferred to clinically relevant pathogens. In this work, we explore the ARG copy quantities in three environmental media distributed across four cities in California and demonstrate that there exist city-to-city disparities in soil and drinking water ARGs.

Case Report Demonstrating the Safe and Effective Means of Expanding the Donor Pool With Livers Recovered From Brain-Dead Donors After Ethylene Glycol Toxicity.

The growing disparity between organ supply and demand has become the greatest hurdle facing transplant professionals and life-saving transplants. Because the organ shortage has become the rate-limiting step to effective transplants, it is critical for the transplant community to identify viable mechanisms to expand the donor pool and use every available allograft. Although using kidneys from deceased donors whose demise was secondary to ethylene glycol (EG) toxicity requires great deliberation and precise timing as described by Barbas et al [5], using hepatic allografts in this setting involves far less risk.

Paleopathology of an ovarian teratoma: Description and diagnosis of an exotic abdominal bone and tooth mass in a historic Peruvian burial.

Neoplasms are among the most rarely described categories of skeletal abnormalities in paleopathology, and of these, bone- and tooth-forming ovarian teratomas may represent the most extraordinary and exotic. In this case study, we examine a bone and tooth mass found in an Early Colonial period burial from Eten, Peru. We document a complex array of 83 bony and 37 dental elements in the abdominal cavity of an adolescent female individual.

No time to fear: new nurse assists patients following Joplin tornado. Interview by Sandy Painter.

A new nurse is interviewed after working with patients following the May 22, 2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado.

Horner's syndrome after carotid endarterectomy--a case report.

Horner's syndrome is described in a patient with anisocoria and unilateral lid ptosis 48 hours after an ipsilateral carotid endarterectomy. This case illustrates a rare iatrogenic complication of sympathetic nerve dysfunction following elective surgery.