A 42-year-old man presented with 3 weeks of blurry vision in the right eye. His exam was significant for decreased vision in the right eye, diffuse retinopathy in both eyes, and serous retinal detachment in the right eye. The patient was found to be hypertensive with blood pressure of 256/160 mmHg. He was diagnosed with hypertensive emergency with end-organ damage due to features of hypertensiv...

PURPOSE To report visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and color vision prior to, 1 year after, 2 years after and 3 years after iodine-125 brachytherapy for choroidal and ciliary body melanoma (CCM). DESIGN Prospective interventional case series. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-seven patients (37 eyes) with CCM. METHODS Patients had best-corrected Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) vis...

AIM To present a patient who developed bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis secondary to Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis. METHODS A 44-year-old man who was unconscious because of bacterial meningitis was referred to us for conjunctival hyperemia and decreased pupillary light reflexes. Ophthalmoscopy revealed inflammation in the anterior chamber and vitreous opacities in both eyes. He was ...

The rationale for issuing poison pill securities remains unclear, despite the findings of a large body of prior research that these defenses adversely affect shareholder wealth. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the adoption of such defenses may reflect shareholders’ desire to contract efficiently with their managers in an environment characterized by hostile takeovers and uncertainty...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of poor vision in children aged 4-5 years and determine the impact of visual acuity on literacy. DESIGN Cross-sectional study linking clinical, epidemiological and education data. SETTING Schools located in the city of Bradford, UK. PARTICIPANTS Prevalence was determined for 11,186 children participating in the Bradford school vision screening program...

To investigate sensory reweighting as a fundamental property of sensor fusion during standing, we probed postural control with simultaneous rotations of the visual scene and surface of support. Nineteen subjects were presented with pseudo-random pitch rotations of visual scene and platform at the ankle to test for amplitude dependencies in the following conditions: low amplitude vision: high am...

Purpose. To describe the use of intravitreal ranibizumab for choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) secondary to Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) syndrome. Methods. Interventional case report. Results. A 50-year-old woman presented with conjunctival injection and bilateral eye pain. Vision was 20/400 and 20/80 in the right and left eyes, respectively. Bilateral iritis, vitritis, and choroidal thickeni...

Specific interventions included in the review To be included, the trials had to use delayed pushing. The duration of delay varied between the studies. In some studies it was between one and three hours (or earlier if there was an involuntary desire to push), in others women were delayed until the head became visible at introitus or rotation and descent ceased. Comparators, although not prespeci...

Results are promising but long-term safety remains uncertain.

Why do people give to strangers? We propose that people trust and give more to those whose emotional expressions match how they ideally want to feel ("ideal affect match"). European Americans and Koreans played multiple trials of the Dictator Game with recipients who varied in emotional expression (excited, calm), race (White, Asian) and sex (male, female). Consistent with their culture's value...