DSAEK has recently evolved as a preferred method in place of PKP. After DSAEK, we experienced subconjunctival emphysema, decreased air bubble in the AC and low IOP. This could lead to complications, higher rate of dislocation or infection. We should control the wound closure with suture when in doubt.

BACKGROUND Although prior research indicates that religious and spiritual coping is associated with positive health outcomes, few studies have examined religious and spiritual coping among patients with emphysema. OBJECTIVE To describe the utilization of religious and spiritual coping and its relationship to quality of life among patients with emphysema, in a 2-year longitudinal follow-up st...

We report an unusual case where a two-month infant developed a simultaneous and spontaneous pneumocephalus and gross pneumoperitoneum along with progressive surgical emphysema after VP shunt procedure.

A case is described of subcutaneous and mediastinal emphysema developing as a complication of lung function tests in an immunocompromised patient with presumed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

A method of determining the volume of emphysema in excised lungs is presented, with its validation. This method is based on macroscopic point counting using a perforated grid but only the holes (points) overlying emphysema need be counted to produce results within a percentage standard error of 5%. Application of the method shows that an adequate assessment of emphysema cannot be made from one ...

OBJECTIVES This article identifies risk factors associated with the loss and recovery of independence among the household population aged 65 or older. DATA SOURCES The data are from the longitudinal component of the first two cycles (1994/95 and 1996/97) of Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey (NPHS). Supplementary information is from the cross-sectional component of the 1998...

stage, I wanted to displace the ribs outwards and asked him to submit to surgical interference, w'hich he refused. Treatment.?Calcium, opium and a purgative by the mouth. I kept him without any pillow. I did not see the patient for five days and I was told that some evil spirit was working on him and this spirit had inflated his whole body and the man was unrecognisable, and many mantras were b...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is used to treat advanced emphysema that is refractory to maximal medical therapy. 1 Th e National Emphysema Treatment Trials (NETT) have shown their effi cacy in improving 6-min walk distance, maximal exercise capacity, and quality of life, although the mortality benefi t may be limited to the upper-lobe predominance, low-baseline exercise group. 2 , 3 We, ...