Detection and Referral of Orbital and Ocular Injuries Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Following an Educational and Screening Initiative in an Emergency Department.

Importance: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality in the US. Previous studies indicate gaps in identifying and referring female patients with IPV-associated orbital and ocular injuries to ancillary services.

Objective: To determine the number of IPV-associated orbital floor fractures, zygomaticomaxillary complex (ZMC) fractures, and ruptured globes referred to ancillary services in adult female patients following an educational and screening intervention to health care professionals.

Flipped ophthalmology classroom augmented with case-based learning.

Background: Although the flipped classroom model provides an effective way to teach ophthalmology to medical students, there are concerns that it overburdens the learner. The purpose of this study was to assess medical students' perceptions of a case-based flipped classroom style compared with a traditional didactic lecture series and to evaluate the effects of case-based learning on students' confidence in managing common ophthalmic complaints.

Methods: We created an interactive, case-based flipped classroom ophthalmology curriculum.

Postpartum Recovery From Meningioma-Related Oculomotor Palsy.

Background: We summarize a case of transient oculomotor nerve palsy in a pregnant woman with a cavernous sinus meningioma. When pregnant women present with acute ophthalmic signs and symptoms, meningioma should be considered during diagnostic workup given the common proximity of growing meningiomas to visual pathways and ocular motor nerves within the parasellar region.

Case: A 32-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, at 37 weeks of gestation, presented with 2 weeks of diplopia, left-sided ptosis, and left periocular headache.

Atypical Large Vessel Vasculitis Presenting With Cholestatic Liver Abnormalities: Case-Based Review.

Clinicians usually easily recognize cranial manifestations of giant cell arteritis (GCA) such as new-onset headache, jaw claudication, scalp tenderness, and abrupt changes in visual acuity or blindness; however, when presented with an aberrant clinical course, the diagnosis becomes more elusive. In addition to temporal arteries and other extracranial branches of the carotid arteries, large vessel vasculitis (LVV) can also affect other blood vessels including coronary arteries, aorta with its major branches, intracranial blood vessels, and hepatic arteries.Over time, the scope of the symptoms typically associated with LVV has broadened and includes cases of fever of unknown origin accompanied with other constitutional symptoms that can mimic a range of neoplastic and infectious diseases.

Structural Characterization of a Newly Identified Component of α-Carboxysomes: The AAA+ Domain Protein CsoCbbQ.

Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments that enhance carbon fixation by concentrating ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) and its substrate CO2 within a proteinaceous shell. They are found in all cyanobacteria, some purple photoautotrophs and many chemoautotrophic bacteria. Carboxysomes consist of a protein shell that encapsulates several hundred molecules of RuBisCO, and contain carbonic anhydrase and other accessory proteins.