Epstein-Barr viral corneal stromal keratitis occurring during rheumatoid arthritis treatment: a case report.

Background: A case of Epstein-Barr viral (EBV) corneal stromal keratitis during rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment is presented.

Case Presentation: A 74-year-old female undergoing RA treatment was previously treated for bacterial corneal ulcer and herpetic keratitis and healed with antibiotic eye drops and topical anti-herpes ointment. At the first visit to our hospital, she presented with findings of monocular posterior interstitial keratitis with neovascularization mostly located in the inferior cornea with a corneal epithelial defect.

A Study Validating the Estimation of Anterior Chamber Depth and Iridocorneal Angle with Portable and Non-Portable Slit-Lamp Microscopy.

This study assessed the anterior chamber depth (ACD) and iridocorneal angle using a portable smart eye camera (SEC) compared to the conventional slit-lamp microscope and anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). This retrospective case-control study included 170 eyes from 85 Japanese patients. The correlation between the ACD evaluations conducted with the SEC and conventional slit-lamp was high (r = 0.

Minnamide A, a Linear Lipopeptide from the Marine Cyanobacterium Okeania hirsuta.

Minnamide A is a lipopeptide with a unique repeating structure consisting of hydroxy and proposed β-branched methyl groups. The absolute configuration of minnamide A was determined by a combination of chemical degradation, chiral HPLC analyses, and synthetic methods. Minnamide A showed growth-inhibitory activity toward HeLa cells with an IC value of 0.