A Standardized Grading System for Scleritis

A Review of The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Grading System and Proposed Modification

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) method of embryo grading is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for SART membership programs since 2010. Developed by SART in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, “good, fair, and poor,” are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the shi...

Annotation System for Grading Assignments

A new endoscopic standardized grading system for macroscopic central airway complications following lung transplantation: the MDS classification.

OBJECTIVES After lung transplant, between 9 and 13% of bronchial anastomoses develop complications severe enough to warrant therapeutic intervention. These complications include stenosis, dehiscence, granulation tissue, bronchomalacia and fistula. Most of these have already been included in a classification or another, but none of these have been universally accepted. Moreover, no grading syste...

Systemic Cyclosporine Therapy for Scleritis: A Proposal of a Novel System to Assess the Activity of Scleritis

In the present study, two female patients with unilateral scleritis without systemic complications were examined. Both patients were suffering from ocular pain and received corticosteroid therapy. The first patient, a 45-year-old woman, was diagnosed with scleritis and iritis in her right eye. Topical corticosteroid treatment could eradicate the iritis but not the scleritis. Oral corticosteroid...

Immune System Disorders in Patients with Scleritis

A large number of abnormalities is present in the immune system of the patients suffering from scleritis of unknown etiology as well as from scleritis associated with other systemic diseases. The aim of the present work was to investigate the level immune parametars in serum patients ( imminoglobin IgG, IgA, IgM, complement-C3, circulating immune complexes CIC, rheumatoid factor RF, antinuclear...