Publications by authors named "Kinda Najem"
Objective: To describe the demographics, clinical presentation, proportion of co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and treatment of patients with ocular syphilis seen at the ophthalmology department of 2 tertiary centres in Montreal, Canada.
Design: Retrospective case series.
Participants And Methods: A total of 169 eyes of 115 patients, seen between 2000 and 2015, with a positive syphilis treponemal serology and a likely syphilis-related ophthalmologic diagnosis.
Context: Medical Education can be delivered in the traditional classroom or novel technology including an online classroom.
Objective: To test the hypothesis that learning in an online classroom would result in similar outcomes as learning in the traditional classroom when using a flipped classroom pedagogy.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Purpose: To measure and compare the cytokine concentrations in the aqueous humor of patients with acute nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and normal age-related cataract controls.
Design: Prospective, comparative observational study.
Methods: Aqueous humor samples were obtained in 10 patients with acute NAION (within 14 days of symptom onset) and 15 control patients with age-related cataract.
IgG4-related disease presenting as panuveitis without scleral involvement.
J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect
December 2017
Background: The following case emphasizes the importance of including IgG4-related disease (RD) in the differential diagnosis of intraocular inflammation and multiple cranial nerve palsies.
Results: A 33-year-old man, with a history of idiopathic bilateral panuveitis, presented with a new right pupillary-sparing partial third nerve palsy, which spontaneously resolved in 2 weeks, but was followed 1 month later, by a right sixth nerve palsy, which also resolved within a few weeks. Motility disturbance was accompanied by a decrease in the central acuity in the right eye.
The SCN9A gene codes for the sodium voltage-gated channel NaV 1.7. Gain of function mutations cause pain disorders such as primary erythromelalgia, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder, and small fiber neuropathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report a leak at the cornea-anterior front plate interface of the Boston keratoprosthesis type 1 (KPro) leading to hypotony.
Design: Retrospective interventional case series.
Participants: Three patients (3 eyes) who experienced development of hypotony after Boston KPro type 1 implantation surgery at the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.