Scleral melting in a patient with carotid artery obstruction.

Purpose: To report a case of severe scleral melting in a patient with carotid artery obstruction.

Methods: This is an observational case report. We reviewed the patient's chart and the available literature on ocular melting and ocular ischemia.

Donor-to-host transmitted Candida endophthalmitis after penetrating keratoplasty.

Objective: To report the first case of Candida albicans endophthalmitis following penetrating keratoplasty after warm preservation.

Design: Observational case report.

Methods: We reviewed the patient's chart and the available literature on fungal endophthalmitis after keratoplasty.

Prognostic value of troponin T, myoglobin, and CK-MB mass in patients presenting with chest pain without acute myocardial infarction.

Objective: To assess the prognostic value of minor myocardial damage in patients presenting with chest pain without myocardial infarction.

Design: The relative risk of suffering a cardiac event in the next six months was assessed in patients with minor myocardial damage assessed by the cardiac markers CK-MB, myoglobin, and troponin T.

Setting: Emergency department of a large university hospital.