Associations between Parental Engagement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Status.

Objective:  This study aimed to (1) determine the effect of neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES), which considers the social and physical environment where a person lives, on parental engagement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and (2) compare the relationships between parental engagement and individual versus neighborhood-level measures of SES.

Study Design:  In this cohort study, parents ( = 45) of premature neonates ≤34 weeks' gestation were assessed at 2 and 6 weeks after birth from December 2017 to October 2019. Neighborhood-level SES was determined using census data per the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs' methodology, and parents self-reported their education level as an individual-level measure of SES.

[Treatment with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in risk patients with fibrin reactions after cataract operations].

The postoperative course after cataract surgery can be complicated by the formation of severe fibrinous membranes, especially in cases with previous goniotrepanation, after syn echiolysis, iridotomy or iris suturing, and in patients with diabetes or uveitis. This study retrospectively analyzes the efficacy of intraocular tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for fibrinolysis in these conditions commonly considered as contraindications to tPA therapy. When antiinflammatory therapy was unsuccessful in lysing fibrinous membranes, 10 micrograms of tPA (Actilyse) was injected into the anterior chamber following the first postoperative day (n = 15).

[Argon laser trabeculoplasty in chronic simple glaucoma with visual field defects and papillary damage].

It has been recently demonstrated that the intraocular pressure (IOP) after argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT) in primary open-angle glaucoma rises in the long term. The present study analysed the effect of the postoperative rise in IOP in 36 patients (group A) with glaucomatous optic nerve damage or visual field defects. The results were compared with those in 37 patients without such glaucomatous damage (group B).

[Results of goniotrepanation in chronic simple glaucoma after drug therapy and argon laser trabeculoplasty].

In a retrospective study the effects of goniotrephination following antiglaucoma medication and argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT) were examined. The study addressed the first treated eye in each of 61 patients. In all patients tropial antiglaucoma medication was continued after ALT.