Evaluation of Foveal Hypoplasia in Children with a History of Retinopathy of Prematurity.

Purpose: To evaluate the foveal development in patients diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and to evaluate whether foveal development was affected by treatment in ROP patients.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included patients with a history of ROP. Foveal development was compared between eyes with spontaneous regression and treated eyes.

Best Practices for Point of Care Ultrasound: An Interdisciplinary Expert Consensus.

Despite the growing use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) in contemporary medical practice and the existence of clinical guidelines addressing its specific applications, there remains a lack of standardization and agreement on optimal practices for several areas of POCUS use. The Society of Point of Care Ultrasound (SPOCUS) formed a working group in 2022 to establish a set of recommended best practices for POCUS, applicable to clinicians regardless of their training, specialty, resource setting, or scope of practice. Using a three-round modified Delphi process, a multi-disciplinary panel of 22 POCUS experts based in the United States reached consensus on 57 statements in domains including: (1) The definition and clinical role of POCUS; (2) Training pathways; (3) Credentialing; (4) Cleaning and maintenance of POCUS devices; (5) Consent and education; (6) Security, storage, and sharing of POCUS studies; (7) Uploading, archiving, and reviewing POCUS studies; and (8) Documenting POCUS studies.

The asymptomatic ocular surface reservoir of coronavirus disease-19 in infants and retinopathy of prematurity screening during the pandemic.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of conjunctival and pharyngeal swab sample positivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in asymptomatic preterm and term infants. We aimed to detect asymptomatic carrier potential in infants.

Materials And Methods: Patients screened for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) at our clinic between January and June 2021 were recruited for this study.

MEASUREMENT OF THE CONCENTRATION OF 226RA, 232TH, 40K IN THE SOIL IN SETTLEMENTS ON THE COASTLINE OF LAKE VAN, TURKEY.

In this study, the natural radioactivity level and its effects on the environment of Lake Van, which is the largest lake in Turkey, were investigated extensively. Initially, 254 soil samples have been collected from the districts (Tusba, Edremit, Gevas, Tatvan, Ahlat, Adilcevaz, Ercis) located around the coastline of Lake Van in eastern Turkey. A Na(TI) detector was used to detect activity concentrations of radium (226Ra), thorium (232Th) and potassium (40K) in each collected soil sample.

Nasal endoscopy-guided primary nasolacrimal duct intubation for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children older than 4 years.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcomes of endoscopic guided primary bicanalicular intubation (BCI) for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) in children older than 4 years.

Methods: A total of 40 eyes from 33 children (18 males, 15 females) with CNLDO who underwent bicanalicular intubation were evaluated. The type of CNLDO was determined by endonasal endoscopic visualisation.

Conjunctival leiomyosarcoma in a patient with xeroderma pigmentosum: 5-year follow-up without recurrence.

Conjunctival leiomyosarcoma is a very rare soft tissue malignancy. Herein, we describe a conjunctival leiomyosarcoma case in a patient with another rare disease, xeroderma pigmentosum. The 27-year-old single-eyed xeroderma pigmentosum patient complained of exophytic mass covering the ocular surface in her left eye.

Episcleral Iodine-125 radioactive plaque brachytherapy as a salvage treatment for retinoblastoma in the era of intraarterial chemotherapy.

Background: Retinoblastoma shows high rates of recurrence after initial chemotherapy (systemic or intraarterial). Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of iodine-125 radioactive plaque brachytherapy as a salvage treatment with globe-preserving attributes after initial chemotherapy in patients with intraocular retinoblastoma.

Methods: The effect of brachytherapy was investigated retrospectively in 17 eyes of 17 patients who were followed up due to retinoblastoma between May 2012 and June 2018 and who received iodine-125 radioactive plaque brachytherapy as a salvage treatment after systemic or intra-arterial chemotherapy.

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony in the intensive care unit: A practical approach to diagnosis and management.

Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony or asynchrony occurs when, for any parameter of respiration, discordance exists between the patient's spontaneous effort and the ventilator's provided support. If not recognised, it may promote oversedation, prolong the duration of mechanical ventilation, create risk for lung injury, and generally confuse the clinical picture. Seven forms of dyssynchrony are common: (a) ineffective triggering; (b) autotriggering; (c) inadequate flow; (d) too much flow; (e) premature cycling; (f) delayed cycling; and (g) peak pressure apnoea.

The interaction of gamma radiation with drugs used in cholinergic medications.

Pharmacological medications can reduce the radiation damage in the organism when applied in the stage before or after exposure to radiation. Cholinergic drugs are a category of pharmaceutical agents acting on the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, the primary neurotransmitter in the parasympathetic nervous system. In this investigation, some gamma radiation interaction parameters namely mass attenuation coeffıcients (), effective atomic number () and electron densities () of 12 cholinergic system drugs have been calculated in the energy range 1 KeV-100 GeV.

Prone Positioning of the Burn Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Review of the Evidence and Practical Considerations.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common sequela of severe burns and inhalation injury. The massive inflammatory reaction that follows deep burn injury, compounded by episodes of sepsis and organ dysfunction, predisposes patients to the development of ARDS. Prone positioning as a means of improving gas exchange has shown benefit in refractory cases of ARDS, but it is not well described in the burn population.

Early Secondary Neurologic Deterioration After Blunt Spinal Trauma: A Review of the Literature.

Objectives: The objectives were to review published reports of secondary neurologic deterioration in the early stages of care after blunt spinal trauma and describe its nature, context, and associated risk factors.

Methods: The authors searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL databases for English-language studies. Cases were included meeting the criteria age 16 years or older, nonpenetrating trauma, and experiencing neurologic deterioration during prehospital or emergency department (ED) care prior to definitive management (e.