Visual Functioning and Health-related Quality-of-Life are Compromised in Patients with Uveitis.

Purpose: To assess the vision-related (VR) and health-related (HR) quality-of-life (QoL) of patients with uveitis.

Methods: In total, 60 patients with uveitis, 81 patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR), and 70 healthy subjects completed the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire and the Medical Outcome Study 36-Item Short Form.

Results: Patients with uveitis reported lower HR- and VR-QoL than healthy subjects (p<0.

Manchester iStent study: early results from a prospective UK case series.

Background: To evaluate the 6-month efficacy and safety of the iStent microtrabecular bypass stent in patients with open-angle glaucoma.

Design: A prospective, uncontrolled, interventional case series.

Participants: Forty-four eyes with open-angle glaucoma were reported.

Change in function and spectacle-use 2 months after providing presbyopic spectacles in rural Tanzania.

Aims: To examine near vision spectacle retention and use, and changes in self-reported and performance-based near vision, 2 months after the provision of near vision spectacles.

Methods: We conducted a 2-month follow-up of a population-based cohort of persons in rural Tanzania with near vision impairment who had received spectacles. Previously, residents age >or=40 years were examined for distance and near vision acuity.

Retrospective study of an as required dosing regimen of intravitreal bevacizumab in neovascular age-related macular degeneration in an Australian population.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using an as required dosing regimen.

Methods: A retrospective study of 210 patients (231 eyes) with choroidal neovascularization resulting from neovasacular AMD. Patients were treated with 1.

Impact of presbyopia on quality of life in a rural African setting.

Purpose: To determine the impact of uncorrected presbyopia on quality of life in rural Tanzania.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: Population-based sample of 1709 village and town-dwelling adults aged 40 and older in the Kongwa district in rural Tanzania.

Population-based study of presbyopia in rural Tanzania.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of presbyopia in a rural African population.

Design: Cross-sectional prevalence study.

Participants: One thousand seven hundred nine persons age 40 years and older who resided in 3 villages and randomly selected neighborhoods of Kongwa town, Tanzania.

Measures of visual function and percentage of preferred walking speed in older adults: the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Project.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the association of static (visual acuity, visual fields, and contrast sensitivity) and dynamic (dynamic visual acuity and motion threshold) measures of vision with mobility performance on a mobility course with obstacles.

Methods: A cross-sectional population-based study of 1504 persons aged 72 to 92 years enrolled in the third round of the Salisbury Eye Evaluation Project. Standardized examinations were used to test binocular visual acuity, better eye-contrast sensitivity, visual fields, dynamic visual acuity, and motion threshold.

Secondary mania of vascular origin in elderly patients: a report of two clinical cases.

The concept of secondary mania continues to be debated together with unresolved or partially resolved issues such as lateralization, localization, age of onset, disinhibition syndromes, and others. We have described two patients with secondary mania following a stroke. One had a large left hemisphere cerebral infarction and the symptoms arose about 2.

Screaming, shrieking and muttering: the noise-makers amongst dementia patients.

We have described twelve dementia patients with noise making. We categorized noise making into (i) persistent screaming, (ii) perseverative vocalization, (iii) continuous chattering, muttering, singing or humming, and (iv) swearing, grunting and bizarre noise-making. The patients' ages ranged from 70 to 92 years with a mean of 78.