Long-term outcomes of 3 surgical adjuvants used for internal limiting membrane peeling in idiopathic macular hole surgery.

Purpose: Indocyanine green (ICG), an adjuvant used for peeling of the internal limiting membrane (ILM) during vitreous surgery for idiopathic macular hole (MH), has been reported to be toxic, possibly affecting postoperative visual acuity. We compared the long-term outcomes (within 2 years) of brilliant blue G (BBG), ICG, and triamcinolone acetonide (TA).

Patients And Methods: This study involved 97 eyes of 94 patients who underwent vitreous surgery for MH at the Yamagata University Hospital between June 2002 and November 2010.

Who provides nursing services in Cambodian hospitals?

In Cambodia, the number of nurses is insufficient and details of nursing services are unknown and undocumented. This research explored who provides nursing service activities in Cambodia. The study was conducted at nine hospitals in Cambodia.

Correlation between the characteristics of acceleration and visco elasticity of artery wall under pulsatile flow conditions (physical meaning of I* as a parameter of progressive behaviors of atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis).

Previously, I* parameter has been proposed to diagnose noninvasively the progressive degree of atherosclerosis which is considered to concern the discrimination of the progressive degree of visco elasticity of blood vessel wall. However, the detailed physical meaning of this parameter has not yet been clarified. In this paper, the theoretical analysis and experiments were conducted and the detailed physical meaning of I* parameter was clarified.