PURPOSE New objective photoscreeners are emerging with encouraging national guidelines and pediatric providers can be reimbursed for photoscreening. METHODS Nine objective screeners were applied to two emmetropic subjects with or without known power contact lenses to induce spherical and cylindrical anisometropia close to American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS)...

Lupus nephritis is a life-threatening manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This is commonly suspected when lupus patients present with elevated serum creatinine levels. But it is important to be aware that even patients with advanced disease in the kidney from SLE can have normal renal function, thus requiring a high index of suspicion. We present the case of a patient who prese...

the spring of 1917 at an Indian hospital in G-erman East Africa, and were suggested by Bogers' record of three cases of subtertian and two of benign tertian malaria in which he observed the disappearance of gametes from the peripheral blood following the intravenous administration of tartar emetic. The great majority of malarial cases admitted to the hospital were of subtertian infection, and t...

We here describe a case with bilateral optic disc pit and bilateral assymetrical grey crescent, its ocular coherence tomography findings and the associated unilateral maculopathy in the eye with incomplete crescent.The interesting observation is that the eye in which the grey crescent encompassed the optic pit did not have any maculopathy in contrast to the other eye which had macular retinosch...

introduction antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (anca)-associated glomerulonephritis (gn) is characterized by necrotizing and crescentic gn with paucity of immunoglobulin (ig) and complement deposition, which is also known as pauci-immune crescentic gn. membranous nephropathy (mn) is characterized by the formation of subepithelial immune deposit with resultant changes in glomerular basement ...