Visual outcomes and prognostic factors in ischaemic retinal vasculitis.

Purpose: Our aim was to describe the visual outcomes and determine the clinical factors in ischaemic retinal vasculitis (IRV) that were predictive of a poor visual prognosis or infectious aetiology.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of consecutive presentations of IRV to Auckland District Health Board from 2009 to 2022.

Results: The median age at presentation was 39.

Testing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as a potential moderator of the association between current chronic stress and cardiovascular reactivity.

Motivated by mixed findings regarding the relationship between chronic stress and cardiovascular reactivity, the current study aimed to investigate whether adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) serve as a potential moderator of the association between current chronic stress and cardiovascular reactivity. Incidence of ACEs, levels of current chronic stress, and heart rate (HR) reactivity to a mental arithmetic stress task were measured in 111 participants (age = 20.83, 76 % female, 66 % White).

Assessment of the inter-rater agreement of corneal cytology and culture findings in canine ulcerative keratitis.

Objectives: To assess the inter-rater agreement of corneal cytology findings in canine ulcerative keratitis by veterinary surgeons of different training levels and the agreement of corneal cytology with culture.

Materials And Methods: Dogs with progressive ulcerative keratitis were prospectively recruited for corneal cytology and culture. Corneal cytology slides were reviewed by veterinary surgeons of different training levels (three general practitioners, three ophthalmologists and three pathologists).

Correction: Surface enhanced Raman scattering for the multiplexed detection of pathogenic microorganisms: towards point-of-use applications.

Correction for 'Surface enhanced Raman scattering for the multiplexed detection of pathogenic microorganisms: towards point-of-use applications' by Matthew E. Berry , , 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1AN00865J.

Surface enhanced Raman scattering for the multiplexed detection of pathogenic microorganisms: towards point-of-use applications.

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a technique that demonstrates a number of advantages for the rapid, specific and sensitive detection of pathogenic microorganisms. In this review, an overview of label-free and label-based SERS approaches, including microfluidics, nucleic acid detection and immunoassays, for the multiplexed detection of pathogenic bacteria and viruses from the last decade will be discussed, as well as their transition into promising point-of-use detection technologies in industrial and medical settings.