Purpose. To report a case of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with tofacitinib citrate. Methods. Observational case report. Results. A 59-year-old patient, with a history of rheumatoid arthritis, on methotrexate 10 mg PO qwk and IV abatacept 750 mg/month, presented with photosensitivity, foreign body sensation, pain, redness, and blurry vision of her right eye (RE). Visual acuit...

Lesions on the ocular surface can destroy the stem cells from the limbus and cause limbal stem cell deficiency. The limbal stem cell deficiency is marked by conjunctivalization, which can be defined as the invasion of conjunctival epithelium over the cornea. This process is accompanied by varying degrees of corneal changes such as neovascularization, inflammation, recurrent erosions, persistent...

BACKGROUND: Measurement of intraocular pressure in the presence combined ophthalmic condition could determine further therapy and prognosis. However, tonometry corneal diseases lead to unreliable results. The search for methods measurement these settings is a critical task intended expand diagnostic capabilities.
 AIM: Evaluation transpalpebral value monitoring patients with conditions var...

OBJECTIVE To monitor size and shape changes of bone erosions and changes in BMD in the vicinity of the erosion and in the periarticular trabecular compartment of patients with RA using high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HR-pQCT) imaging and to compare an automated three-dimensional (3D) image processing technique with manual measurements of erosion width and depth. METHODS The shape ...

A 52-year-old man with no previous medical history, but a high body mass index (BMI) >34, presented with a sudden onset of a painful, apparently proptosed left eye and decreased left vision (see figure 1). He had rubbed his eye on waking. On examination, there was no relative afferent pupillary defect. Snellen chart testing was 6/12 (pinhole 6/6) ocular sinistra (OS) and 6/6 ocular dextra (OD)....

BACKGROUND The ocular presentation of Castleman's disease (CD)-associated paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP) has rarely been reported. In this report, we describe a young patient with CD-associated PNP who had recurrent corneal ulceration in addition to cicatrizing conjunctivitis. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of 23-year-old male with mucocutaneous erosion and conjunctival injection and er...

this study compared diet and regular coca-cola on enamel erosion in cold and room temperatures.seventy five enamel specimens were prepared and divided into 5 equal groups (n=15) as follows: group 1: regular beverage at room temperature, group 2: regular beverage at refri-gerator temperature, group 3: diet beverage at room and group 4: diet beverage at refrige-rator temperature. the specimens we...