Ophthalmic findings in marginally housed women in a Canadian city.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and common causes of ocular pathology experienced by vulnerable women with marginalized housing and/or a history of abuse, violence, and trafficking.

Methods: Using a stratified random sampling technique, we recruited 93 women living in 10 randomly selected women's shelters in Toronto, Canada between May and November of 2018. All English-speaking females older than the age of 18 were eligible to participate.

Impact of Visual Impairment on the Wellbeing and Functional Disability of Patients with Glaucoma in India.

Purpose: To investigate the impact of glaucoma-associated vision loss on quality of life and social functioning in Indians.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with prospective enrollment was conducted. Participants were divided as: mild, moderate, and severe.

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in dacryocystorhinostomy with and without silicone intubation.

Objective: To determine the effect of bicanalicular silicone intubation (SI) on dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) success rate in adult primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Design: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Methods: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL, Ovid Medline, Google Scholar, and grey literature search was performed from inception to June 2017.

Lower ocular pulse amplitude with dynamic contour tonometry is associated with biopsy-proven giant cell arteritis.

Objectives: To determine the role of the ocular pulse amplitude (OPA) from Pascal dynamic contour tonometry in predicting the temporal artery biopsy (TABx) result in patients with suspected giant cell arteritis (GCA).

Design: Prospective validation study.

Participants: Adults aged 50 years or older who underwent TABx from March 2015 to April 2017.

Error correcting mechanisms during antisaccades: contribution of online control during primary saccades and offline control via secondary saccades.

Errors in eye movements can be corrected during the ongoing saccade through in-flight modifications (i.e., online control), or by programming a secondary eye movement (i.

Neurosurgical rescue of bradycardia induced by intracerebral hypertension: a case report and review of the literature.

Brain metastases usually occur secondary to lung, breast, unknown primary, melanoma, and colon cancers. A growing tumor in the brain is commonly associated with edema and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Common signs and symptoms due to increased ICP or brain edema include headache, nausea, and vomiting.