BACKGROUND Syphilitic chorioretinitis can produce severe vision loss. However, the clinical manifestations of syphilitic chorioretinitis are still unclear, particularly during different stages. Herein, we will present our diagnostic technique for syphilitic chorioretinitis. METHODS This retrospective study recruited 109 cases; we performed a clinical evaluation including case history, serolog...

CONTEXT Hepatic injury is considered one of the critical complications associated with acute pancreatitis. It was proposed that initial insults to the liver in the early phase of the attack have an important priming effect, and the subsequent infectious attack (e.g. infectious pancreatic necrosis, bacterial translocation episode) constitutes a second attack on the liver. OBJECTIVE To evaluate...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and associated clinical factors of delayed absorption of subretinal fluid (SRF) after surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. METHODS This study involved 36 eyes of 36 consecutive patients who underwent successful surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. A complete ophthalmologic evaluation, including clinical fundus ...

The benefits of laser-assisted indocyanine green fluorescence angiography have previously been demonstrated in cardiac surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the value of this technology in microsurgical breast reconstruction. Intraoperative laser-assisted indocyanine green fluorescence angiography was performed on all microsurgical breast reconstruction cases (deep inferior epigas...

Indocyanine green (ICG) encapsulated hyaluronic acid (HA) nanogels were first studied for highly selective detection of specific cancers and lymph nodes via hyaluronidase sensitive switch-on of near infrared fluorescence as a long-lasting and stimuli-responsive imaging probe.

OBJECTIVE It has been shown recently that the application of indocyanine green (ICG) over the retinal surface is followed by prolonged staining of the optic disc. This study was performed to analyze the diffusion of ICG in the optic tract. METHODS Anterograde diffusion of ICG was evaluated after injection into the vitreous of rabbits. Retrograde diffusion was evaluated after microinjection in...

A Bs T R A C T The mechanism responsible for the anuria in acute renal failure after shock is still controversial. Suppressed glomerular filtration and/or tubular backdiffusion of the filtrate are major possible causes. In the present investigation, seven patients with acute anuria, three of these seven again in the polyuric phase, six patients with moderate renal impairment, four patients with...

BACKGROUND The simultaneous recording of indocyanine green and fluorescein angiography is since more than twenty years possible. The real-time digital recording of angiograms is about since 10 years possible. Because of the poor temporal resolution due to technical limitations, both of the above methods were only seldom used routinely. Graphics workstations can digitize and store multiple video...

Fluorescence angiography was first used by ophthalmologists to measure retinal blood flow by using the fluorescent dye fluorescein. Feindel et al.1,2 were the first to apply the concept of fluorescence angiography to the intraoperative visualisation of cerebral vertebral arteries and cerebral microcirculation in patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures.3,4 With the use of indocyanine green ...

AIMS/BACKGROUND Iris fluorescein angiography (IFA) is not commonly used in clinical practice, although its value has been demonstrated especially in cases of diabetic disease. IFA is able to show neovascular tufts in order to guide the laser treatment, and it is highly recommended in diabetic patients who need cataract surgery or vitrectomy. Nevertheless, IFA fails to demonstrate the iris vascu...