Metacognitions, rumination, and worry in personality disorder.

Research on metacognitions and repetitive negative thinking in patients with Personality Disorder (PD) is scarce. We aimed to determine if metacognitions and repetitive negative thinking differed between patients with PD and those without PD, and if metacognitions would predict repetitive negative thinking in patients with PD controlling for several variables. A sample of 558 clinical participants were assessed for the presence of a PD diagnosis and completed the following questionnaires: Penn-State Worry Questionnaire, Ruminative Response Scale, Metacognitions Questionnaire 30, Beck Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory.

Caruncular late-onset junctional nevus: apropos of an anatomo-clinical observation.

Conjunctival nevi are benign tumors, most often located at the nasal or temporal limbus, and rarely in the fornix or tarsus. The vast majority of caruncular tumors are benign and only few are malignant. Most of the caruncular tumors (either benign or malignant) are nevi.

Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and Metacognitive Beliefs in Male Sexual Dysfunction: An Exploratory Study.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation (PE) are two forms of male sexual disorder with both psychological and physical features. While their cognitive, attentional, and affective components have been investigated separately, there is a lack of knowledge about the role played by cognitive attentional syndrome in their onset and maintenance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible contribution of perseverative thinking styles and thought control strategies to the development and maintenance of ED and PE.

Ossification of the choroid: three clinical cases and literature review of the pathogenesis of intraocular ossification.

Objective: A presentation of the clinical and pathogenic aspects of choroidal ossification.

Cases Presentation: We report three clinical cases of choroidal ossification: choroidal osteoma, ossified choroidal hemangioma and total ossification of the choroid. The three patients underwent complete eye examination.

Myxoid/round cell conjunctival liposarcoma. A case report.

Purpose: To present a rare case of conjunctival myxoid liposarcoma, subtype round cells, that had a seven years follow up.

Clinical Observation: A 61-year-old female patient presents with a palpable, non-painful tumor, on the superior temporal bulbar conjunctiva of the right eye. The initial examination detects a fleshy tumor, orange in color, under the superior temporal bulbar conjunctiva, as well as two oval-shaped hyperpigmented conjunctival lesions, near the limbus at 10 o'clock, causing moderate blepharoptosis.

Multifocal choroidal metastases from thyroid carcinoma: a case report.

We present the case of a 62-year-old female patient, with follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma, which presented to our department for a severe decrease in vision at right eye level. Despite a complex therapy, that included a near-total thyroidectomy, thyroid I-131 ablation, suppressive therapy with LT4, and external beam radiotherapy with cobalt- 60, the patient developed multiple lung, mediastinal, liver, and bone metastases, followed after 1 year, by multifocal choroidal metastases. The complex ocular investigations performed for the diagnosis and follow-up of the choroidal metastases are presented.

[Serous macular detachment associated with circumscribed choroidal hemangioma: a case report].

Introduction: Choroidal hemangiomas are benign vascular hamartomas that typically present from second to fourth decade of life, when they can cause visual disturbance due to exudative retinal detachment. They represent uncommon benign choroidal vascular tumors, usually occuring sporadically in the absence of systemic disease.

Material And Methods: We report the case of a young female patient, presenting a juxtapapillary circumscribed choroidal haemangioma complicated with serous macular detachment.

[Idiopatic parafoveolar telangiectasia associated with pseudoviteliform lesion, basal laminar drusen and optic nerve head drusen].

Background: We present a case with bilateral optic disc drusen, associated in one eye with idiopathic parafoveal telangiectasis (Group 1B), basal laminar drusen, and foveal pseudovitelliform lesion.

Patient: A 45-years old female patient, which complained about a deterioration of vision at the right eye, was ophthalmologically examined.

Results: The examination revealed a bilateral optic disc drusen, and on the right eye a macular haemorrhage.

[Diffuse choroidal hemangioma associated with serous retinal detachment].

A 53-years old patient, with the diagnosis of diffuse choroidal hemangioma, partially ossified, associated with serous exudative retinal detachment, secondary to the choroidal neovessels, is presented. Aspects of differential diagnosis with the choroidal osteoma associated with serous exudative retinal detachment are discussed.

[Combined hamartoma of pigment epithelium and retina].

This is the description of the case of a 36 year old male, who developed a combined hamartoma of the pigment epithelium and retina in the left eye. The location of the lesion in the macular zone, as well as the peculiar aspect of disease, raised some issues related to differential diagnosis. Attention was paid to the diseases of the posterior pole of eyeball, which, given their aspect of disease, result of a secondary hyperplastic reaction of the EPR, can embody a type of combined pseudohamartoma: retraction syndrome, retinal angiomatosis, pseudohistoplasmosis and others.

[Congenital retinal macro-vessel].

This is to show the case of a 40 year old patient, where a congenital retinal macro-vessel was found, the peculiarities of which are increased calibre, intersection of the macular area, arteriovenous shunts and lack of functional disturbances. The disease is rare and its lesional and functional stability is remarkable.

[Neosynephrine mydriasis combined with general anesthesia with halothane in ocular surgery].

Ophthalmologic surgical interventions are performed in numerous cases under general anaesthesia with halothane, many of which requiring a preoperatory mydriasis. Neosinerfin is alpha-adrenoceptive sympathomimetic. Local use, in a 10% concentration produces a strong mydriasis, resistant to the opening of the aqueous chamber during the intervention.

[Unilateral myelinated nerve fibers associated with myopia or amblyopia].

There are described a number of 9 clinical cases with unilateral myelinated nerve fibers, associated with myopia or amblyopia. Four cases developed extended myelinated areas, anisometropia with increased values, accentuated amblyopia and macular changes. Patients underwent treatment for amblyopia through correction with spectacles lenses and the occlusion of the congenerous eye.

[Myelinated nerve fibers associated with juxtapapillary haemorrhages].

The myelinated nerve fibers (MNF) are o congenital anomaly characterized by the extension of the myelinisation process anterior from the lamina cribosa. The incidence of myelinated nerve fibers is 0.3-0.

[Myelinated nerve fibers associated with cilioretinal artery occlusion].

Although the myelinated nerve fibers are considered as benign, cases associated with retinal vascular abnormalities (telangiectasis, neovascularization, vascular occlusions) have recently been reported, suggesting a possible pathogenic correlation between these elements. Our observation presents a 44-year-old patient, with a sudden decrease of visual acuity in the right eye, discal and peridiscal myelinated nerve fibers, associated with cilioretinal artery occlusion. The general clinical and laboratory examination, except for a drug stabilized arterial hypertension, did not reveal other local or general embolic factors.

[Colobomatous pits of the optic nerve papilla associated with serous retinal detachment. The clinical and pathogenic aspects].

The present study is about a number of 19 cases (19 eyes), the patients having a congenital pit of the optic papilla (CPP) complicated with serous retinal detachment (SRD). The cases were selected, from a group of 41 patients with CPP. Average age of the cases was 37(31-54) years.

[An efficacy study of lodoxamide treatment in allergic eye lesions].

Lodoxamid is an antiallergic drug, which stabilizes the mast cells' membrane blocking the release of the type I hypersensitivity reaction chemical mediators. A number of 25 patients with ocular allergic diseases (allergic conjunctivitis, vernal and atopic keratoconjunctivitis, giant papillary conjunctivitis), were included in this study. Lodoxamid, solution 0.

[Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid].

The scarry ocular pemphigoid, is an autoimmune disease, belonging to the category of the acquired oculo-muco-cutaneous bullous dermatosis. The ocular symptoms, during the acute stage are conjunctival bullae, which evolve quickly into ulcerous lesions. During the chronic stage, the disease consists of a chronic scarry conjunctivitis, accompanied by corneal lesions, ocular dryness syndrome, disturbances of the palpebral statics and dynamics.

[Corneal ulcerative lesions in type-I immediate hypersensitivity].

The vernal keratoconjunctivitis (KCV) is included within the category of the hypersensitiveness diseases, the immunopathological mechanism which causes the disease being represented by a type-I hypersensibility reaction. The mechanism which determines the appearance of the corneal lesions isn't entirely cleared up, but there are however some pathogenic links which have been already deciphered. The type I hypersensibility reaction is taking place within two stages: stage I the stage of the sensitizing contact and stage II the stage of the unleashing contact.