COMMON, BUT GENERALLY UNRECOGNIZED SYMPTOMS OF EYE-STRAIN.

Common Symptoms, but Rare Diagnoses in Neonatology.

In this issue of Pediatric Annals, the articles discuss newborns who present with common neonatal symptomology, but have rare diagnostic outcomes. In the first article, Drs. Alison Chu and Harvey K. Chiu discuss tachypnea and hypoglycemia, commonly presenting symptoms during the newborn period. In the illustrated case, the early and persistent hypoglycemia was a clue to the newborn’s underlying...

Forgotten but not gone: the rediscovery of fatty heart, the most common unrecognized disease in America.

Until 60 years ago, fatty heart was an accepted clinical entity. Since then, its very existence has been questioned, despite the fact that 2 of 3 Americans are now obese or overweight and obesity has been shown to be correlated with cardiac functional abnormalities. In 2000, a syndrome of "lipotoxic cardiomyopathy" resembling earlier pathologic descriptions of fatty human hearts was described i...

Eye Strain

He says : With the parts thus rendered specially receptive to infective germs there is little difficulty in understanding that inflammations should ensue, and thus we find that blepharitis, corneal ulcers, phlyctsenulse, iritis, cyclitis, and glaucoma may have eye strain as one of the predisposing causes. There is also little doubt that cataract may be started by the irregular contraction of th...

Eye Strain and Convergence

Refractory nonmotor symptoms in male patients with Parkinson disease due to testosterone deficiency: a common unrecognized comorbidity.

BACKGROUND Many patients with Parkinson disease (PD) suffer from nonmotor symptoms including depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, decreased energy level, and an overall decline in quality of life. Comorbid depression, hypothyroidism, and sleep disorders may account for some, but not all, of these problems. Testosterone deficiency affects 20% to 25% of males over the age of 60 years in the g...