Testosterone declines with aging, so most midlife women have "low" testosterone levels. Because libido also declines with aging, and distressing sexual problems peak at midlife, should midlife women with low libido and associated distress be treated with testosterone? This Practice Pearl reports clinical trial evidence, reviews the risks, and explains how testosterone might be used in a clinica...

Phagocytosis and intracellular killing of Staphylococcus aureus by granulocytes were examined in diabetic patients. There was no significant difference in the phagocytic activity of granulocytes between control and diabetic-subjects. However, intracellular killing by granulocytes was significantly reduced in insulin-treated diabetic patients compared with control subjects. No significant differ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the visual outcome and self-reported vision-targeted health status in patients treated with intravitreal ranibizumab for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS A total of 51 eyes from 50 patients aged 76 ± 7 years, with wet AMD not previously treated, were included in this prospective study. Best corrected visual acuity was exa...

X-linked retinoschisis is more common in male children and rare females. Clinically, patients mainly present with early onset visual impairment or vision loss, retinal due to division of the inner retina. We report a long-term observation female patient familial foveal (FFR) caused by CRB1 gene complex heterozygotic mutation. The initial symptoms reported this study were very similar some manif...

purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of pars plana vitrectomy and posterior hyaloid stripping in decreasing macular thickness and improving vision in diabetic macular edema.          methods: this prospective interventional case series includes 30 eyes of 25 diabetic patients with diabetic macular edema with macular thickness exceeding 170 microns and thickened posterior hyaloid. bcva and mac...

the big eye kilka, clupeonella grimmi, is a marine fish living in depth of 20 to 200 meter of the caspian sea. its eye and retina were processed for histological and sem studies. paraffin embedded retina was cut radially and tangentially in 5 ?m thickness and stained with hematoxylin and eosin method. the unstained sections were manipulated for sem image observations. tangential retinal section...

Background: To report the sequential peripapillary vascular changes in nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) Methods: A 60-year-old male presented with right eye painless vision loss leading to inferior field defects and right eye 0.5 vision. The sequential OCTA was performed at presentation and 5 months later to evaluate th...