Purpose: The present study aimed to review the effect of dehydration during Ramadan fasting on the health and ocular parameters leading to changes in eye function. Methods: Articles included in the study were taken from Pub Med, Ovid, Web of Science and Google Scholar up to 2014.Related articles were also obtained from scientific journals in fasting and eye. Results: Dehydration and nutrition c...

Background Behcet’s disease (BD) is an auto-inflammatory disorder, characterized by recurrent aphthous stomatitis, genital ulcers, uveitis, erythema nodosum and other numerous mucocutaneous, gastrointestinal, neurological, vascular manifestations. Despite many biomarkers (anti-lysozyme, serum endocan, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP)) have been investigated for evaluating activity predicting sev...

We report new findings from a neurological case described by Hanley, Young, and Pearson (1989). In the original study, the patient, BD, had impaired biographical knowledge of people which appeared to extend to a general impairment of knowledge of “living things”. In more recent work, we present evidence which confirms Hanley et al.’s finding that BD has impaired person-specific knowledge, but w...

background: the diagnosis of toxocariasis heavily depends on immunological tests because the number of parasites is usually few in infected tissues, unless they migrate into an organ such as eye. in general, patients with ocular toxocariasis have serum anti- t canis antibody titres that are significantly lower than those with visceral toxocariasis. objective: to diagnose the asymptomatic toxoca...

Background: Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory involving primarily the oral and genital mucosa, skin eyes. Some patients exhibit broader involvement with multi-organ system inflammation, causing significant morbidity mortality. With much of literature focused on adult-onset BD, clinical spectrum BD in children not well studied. The diagnosis pediatric difficult to make due its rar...