Combination of mild therapeutic hypothermia and adipose-derived stem cells for ischemic brain injury.

Mild therapeutic hypothermia has been shown to mitigate cerebral ischemia, reduce cerebral edema, and improve the prognosis of patients with cerebral ischemia. Adipose-derived stem cell-based therapy can decrease neuronal death and infiltration of inflammatory cells, exerting a neuroprotective effect. We hypothesized that the combination of mild therapeutic hypothermia and adipose-derived stem cells would be neuroprotective for treatment of stroke.

[The accuracy of posterior curvature method in corneal power calculation after LASIK surgery].

Objective: To estimate the accuracy of posterior curvature method in corneal power calculation after LASIK surgery.

Methods: Corneal power calculation in 11 eyes that underwent Intraocular Lens (IOL) implantation after LASIK surgery (10 cases of Phaco + IOL, 1 case of IOL displacement), all of which used posterior curvature method, was analyzed retrospectively. The differences between post-operative stable refraction and target refraction were calculated, the actual corneal powers were deduced, and the expected refractive errors using other corneal power evaluation methods (auto-keratometry, corneal topography, spherical equivalent method, anterior curvature method, Equivalent K Reading method provided by Pentacam) were analyzed.

Practical method to calculate post-LASIK corneal power: the Actual K(a+p) method.

Aim: To evaluate the accuracy of a practical method (the Actual K(a+p) method) of corneal power measurement for post-LASIK eyes undergoing cataract surgery.

Methods: Ten eyes of 7 patients (4 male, 3 female, average age 50.10±4.