OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of different modes of treatment of chronic anal fissure as regards improvement of symptoms and complications. METHODS This prospective study included 129 consecutive patients with chronic anal fissures presented to the Surgical Outpatients' Department of Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot, Pakistan; from September 2010 to November 2012. Patients were distrib...

UNLABELLED PURPOSETo review the topographic patterns associated with keratoconus suspects and provide criteria for keratoconus screening. METHODS Case study using maps from the NIDEK OPD-Scan II and OPD Station to highlight patterns seen in keratoconic corneas. RESULTS Five criteria are listed for the detection of keratoconus: 1) apex of the cone is not centered at the 6-o'clock semi-meridi...

The VLTI system foresees two generations of fringe sensor: FINITO and PRIMA FSUs. The former is dedicated to H band; it controls the internal OPD with a temporal modulation with an external reference OPD. The latter, working with the ABCD model and in K band, is based on the introduction of known phase offsets for the interferometric signal (spatial phase modulation) and on the measurement of t...

PURPOSE To document severe visual symptoms due to the dislocation of an iris-fixated aphakic anterior chamber lens using wavefront aberrometry. METHODS A patient complaining of severe visual blur and distortion due to a decentered Artisan iris-fixated anterior chamber lens was evaluated pre- and postoperatively after recentration. The patient underwent complete ophthalmic evaluation including...

Real-time monitoring of chemical reactions is still challenging as well as important to study reaction mechanisms and reaction kinetics. Herein, we demonstrated the real-time monitoring of o-phenylenediamine (OPD) oxidation on the surface of gold nanoparticles by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The oxidation mechanism and the reaction kinetics were investigated on the basis of the S...

The demand for orthodontic treatment is increasing greatly in the present days. In a country like India which has a humongous population of 1210 million the management strategies need to be formulated so as to give justice to the deprived. The prioritization should be based on the extent to which the malocclusion handicaps the patient and his motivation to commence the treatment. Eishenhower bo...

This study had two aims: to test the hypothesis that borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients hold numerous dysfunctional beliefs associated with a variety of Axis II disorders, and to construct a BPD belief scale which captures these beliefs. Beliefs were measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire (PBQ) which is designed to assess beliefs associated with various personality diso...

KEY FINDINGS The percentage of physician office and hospital outpatient department (OPD) visits during which an MRI/CT/PET scan was ordered doubled, to 4%, and the percentage of hospital emergency department visits with an MRI/CT scan more than tripled, to 16%. The percentage of physician office and OPD visits with at least five drugs prescribed more than doubled, to 25%. Inpatient hospitalizat...

Abstract Background OPD and OPD' are the two main active components of Ophiopogon japonicas in Shenmai injection (SMI). Being isomers each other, they supposed to have similar pharmacological activities, but actual situation is complicated. The difference hemolytic behavior between vivo vitro was discovered reported by our group for first time. In vitro, only showed hemolysis reaction, while vi...