The Choice of Drainage Device in Complicated Glaucomas: Comparing Ahmed and Baerveldt Implants.

Background/aim: Glaucoma is a chronic and progressive optic neuropathy which leads to deterioration of visual function. It is estimated to be the second leading cause of severe vision loss and blindness worldwide. Failure of anti-glaucoma medication to sufficiently reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) and poor compliance with medication are indications for glaucoma surgery, for example using glaucoma drainage devices.

Psychological Aspects and Depression in Patients with Symptomatic Keratoconus.

Purpose: To assess the psychological status of keratoconus sufferers and to determine the relationship between depression and visual impairment in this group of patients.

Methods: Fifty-six patients with keratoconus and forty-seven age- and gender-matched healthy control subjects were retroprospectively analyzed. Every participant underwent a complete ophthalmological examination.

Voice disorders in the general Greek population and in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux. Prevalence and risk factors.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of voice disorders in the general Greek population and in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) with the use of the reflux symptom index (RSI).

Study Design: Prospective epidemiological adult participant survey.

Setting: General Greek population.

Contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography with intravesical administration of a second-generation ultrasound contrast agent for diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux: prospective evaluation of contrast safety in 1,010 children.

Background And Objective: To evaluate the safety of intravesical administration of a second-generation ultrasound (US) contrast agent for the diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux in children.

Materials And Methods: One thousand and ten children (563 girls, 447 boys; mean age: 2.9 years, range: 15 days-17.

Bifocal pyomyositis in a 3-year-old child with eczema: a case report.

Pyomyositis is an infection of the skeletal muscles, resulting in a pus-filled abscess. Immunodeficiency of the patient is considered to play an important role in pathogenesis. We report a case of a 3-year-old child, who presented with multifocal pyomyositis in the gastrocnemius muscle, extending to the posterior muscles of the thigh.

Diverging trends in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a low risk population.

Cardiovascular (CVD) disease morbidity and mortality are changing over the years, following changes in socioeconomic conditions and underlying risk factors. However, the trends of these changes differ among various populations. There is little data regarding these trends in low CVD risk populations.