introduction : frosted branch angiitis(fba) is a panuveitis with sheating of all retinal vesssels. case presentation : herein we report an immunocompetent person who presented with fever, headache, atypical rash, and hazy vision. ophthalmoscopy of both eyes revealed perivascular sheathing with frosted branch angiitis pattern in veins, patchy retinal hemorrhages. aqueous pcr analysis turned posi...

cystoid macular edema (cme) is a painless disease with different etiologies, which manifests as multiple cyst like (cystoid) spaces in the macula. cme is a common cause of vision loss following cataract surgery. some risk factors for post-cataract surgery cme include intraoperative complications specially incarceration of vitreous in the surgical wound, history of diabetes, uveitis and postoper...

we report a case of choroidal neovascularization (cnv) secondary to methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr) gene mutation in a 20-year-old male patient with hypopituitarism. treatment with three consecutive injections of intravitreal ranibizumab (anti-vascular endothelial growth factor) resulted in significant improvement of the patient’s vision and the appearance of the macula. a search ...

The popular view of structural family therapy sees the structural diagnosis of families as lying at the heart of this therapeutic approach. This article challenges that view. I t argues that the practice of structural family therapy is driven not by structural diagnosis but by two fundamental assumptions about human and family functioning: the assumption of competence and the assumption of uniq...