Design and delivery of the Refractive Errors Among Children (REACH) school-based eye health programme in India.

Clinical Relevance: Optimisation of vision screening programmes can result the detection of refractive anomalies in a high proportion of school children.

Background: The Refractive Errors Among Children (REACH) programme aims to optimise outcomes of school-based vision screening in India by collaborating with hospitals and monitoring eye care throughout school attendance.

Methods: REACH delivers school vision screening using pocket vision screeners (cards presenting rows of seven 0.

Anesthetic techniques used for pulsed dye laser (PDL) in the treatment of port-wine birthmarks: An exploratory assessment of current attitudes and practice patterns among pediatric dermatologists in the United States.

Background/objectives: Pulsed dye laser (PDL) is the gold standard for treating port-wine birthmarks (PWBs), but no consensus exists regarding anesthetic techniques when performing PDL for PWB. Given potential adverse neurocognitive effects from general anesthesia (GA) exposure in early childhood, we sought to establish current attitudes and practice patterns regarding anesthesia when treating PWB with PDL.

Methods: An electronic REDCap survey was distributed to members of the Pediatric Dermatology Research Alliance (PeDRA) and the Society for Pediatric Dermatology (SPD) via email.

Retrospective case series of increased oral propranolol dosage for infantile hemangiomas.

Background: Infantile hemangiomas (IH) are the most common benign tumor of infancy. Although oral propranolol is currently first-line therapy, optimal dosing for treatment of IH remains debated. We sought to identify hemangioma characteristics associated with poor response to standard dosing (2 mg/kg/d) and to assess the therapeutic benefit of higher dosing.

Lip and Lower Lid Supporting Prosthetic Appliance: A Unique Approach of Treating Unilateral Facial Paralysis.

Along with function, aesthetics plays an important role in treating partially or completely edentulous patients. Ageing, trauma, tooth loss and neuromuscular disorders have a high impact on tonicity of facial musculature, elasticity of skin as well as function of muscles. Patients affected with Bell's palsy face functional, aesthetic as well as psychological impairment.

Molecular genetics of head and neck cancer (Review).

Understanding of molecular regulatory pathways presents a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of head and neck cancer. These specific check points are becoming the targeted therapeutic approach. In this review, we highlight certain major signaling mechanisms, which are involved in the pathophysiology of head and neck cancer.

Intraabdominal focal fat infarction in a 75-year-old woman presenting as acute abdomen.

Epiploic appendagitis is a rare, self-limiting inflammation of the epiploic appendices or omental appendices. It presents as abdominal pain often misdiagnosed as appendicitis, cholecystitis, or diverticulitis. Epiploic appendagitis can be treated conservatively with anti-inflammatory and pain medications.

ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in a 37-year-old man with normal coronaries--it is not always cocaine!

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. With the increase in substance abuse, the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in younger population has been on the rise. Traditionally, cocaine has been blamed for acute MI; however, recently, there have been more incidences of marijuana as an inciting factor.