THEORY OF LENS TRANSPARENCY Although the lens is comprised of very high concentrations of protein approaching about 37% wet weight in the nucleus of an adult human lens [1], it remains relatively transparent throughout most of an individual’s adult life. The original explanation for transparency involved an ordered array of proteins, resulting in periodic destructive interference leading to tra...

Socioeconomic status is one of the most essential indicators to evaluate health and nutritional a family. Many composite indexes have been proposed. Few international scales are Hollingshead scale, Nakao Treas Blishen, Carroll, Moore In India, can be categorised into those applicable in rural, urban or both. The various Rahudkar B. G Prasad Udai Parikh Jalota Kuppuswamy Gaur classification Bhar...

OBJECTIVE To assess multiple sclerosis (MS) associated fatigue after the first 6 months of natalizumab treatment. METHODS Prospective, open-label, uncontrolled study. Fatigue was measured before treatment initiation and at month 6 with the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) and the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) in 42 patients. Subjective impression of well-being was assessed with a visual an...

BACKGROUND As a symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), fatigue is difficult to manage because of its unknown etiology, the lack of efficacy of the drugs tested to date and the absence of consensus about which would be the ideal measure to assess fatigue. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the frequency of fatigue in a sample of MS patients and healthy controls (HC) using two fatigue scales, the Fat...

Background Neurotomies were one of the first procedures performed in the field of functional neurosurgery. Microstimulators and microscopes facilitate the performance of neurotomies to treat focal spasticity. This report shows how three different consecutive neurotomies were performed in one patient with chronic left upper/lower extremity spasticity. Case Description A 65-year-old male with i...