eration of primary care ophthalmologists. This could share some modules with ophthalmic surgical training, but would concentrate on developing areas such as teaching skills, epidemiology, population based research and management skills to a higher level than is usually attained in ophthalmic surgical training. It is difficult to guess what effect the impending changes in the way clinical servic...

PURPOSE To evaluate the ophthalmic artery hemodynamics in patients with chronic heart failure. METHODS Doppler parameters of ophthalmic artery of 18 patients with chronic heart failure in different stages of the disease were compared with 21 healthy volunteers (control group). These parameters were also correlated with echocardiographic assessments and clinical cardiologic status. RESULTS M...

Peter Parker (1804-1888), a Yale University--trained missionary and physician, founded the first Western-style hospital in China, the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton (now known as Guangzhou), on November 4, 1835. During its first 3 months, Parker treated 1061 patients, of whom 1020 (96.1%) had ocular illnesses. Since then, the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton has become a comprehensive institution t...

In this study, a new approach based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was presented for detection of ophthalmic artery stenosis. Decision making was performed in two stages: feature extraction using the wavelet transform (WT) and the ANFIS trained with the backpropagation gradient descent method in combination with the least squares method. The ophthalmic arterial Doppler signals...

Purpose: To capture the sensitivity and resistance trends of ophthalmic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a heterogenous demographic. Methods: Between 1/1/2004-12/31/2011, ophthalmic MRSA infections were searched in the electronic medical record system of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California. We reviewed whether the infection was community-acquired or hosp...

AIM To investigate the effects of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ophthalmic solution on latanoprost induced intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction in glaucoma patients. METHODS Examination was conducted on 16 eyes of 16 glaucoma patients who had been given only latanoprost for at least 6 weeks. The NSAID ophthalmic solution, sodium 2-amino-3-(4-bromobenzoyl) phenylacetate sesqui...

Research aims Escherichia coli YggS is a highly conserved pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-binding protein whose biochemical function is unknown. We found that a yggS-deficient E. coli s t ra in (ΔyggS ) accumulates an unusual metabol i te , ophthalmic ac id (γ-L-glutamyl-L-2-aminobutyryl-glycine, Fig. 1). This ∆yggS mutant is the first microorganism that accumulates high levels of ophthalmic acid. Op...