OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency and characteristics of ocular manifestations in outpatients with systemic sclerosis. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 45 patients with systemic sclerosis were enrolled. Data regarding demographics, disease duration and subtype, age at diagnosis, nailfold capillaroscopic pattern and autoantibody profile were collected, and a full ophthalmic examination...

SARCOIDOSIS is well recognized as a cause of swelling of the lacrimal glands and enters into the differential diagnosis of tumours of this region (DukeElder, 1952). Such swellings may be followed, in some cases, by a form of keratoconjunctivitis sicca (Ainslie and James, 1956; Gruber, 1956). The association of systemic sarcoidosis with keratoconjunctivitis sicca in the absence of swelling of th...

Investigations were carried out in 122 patients in order to identify features of Sjögren's syndrome (keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia). There were 78 patients with autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis 21, scleroderma 16, sicca syndrome 16, primary biliary cirrhosis 14, and other autoimmune disorders 11), 11 patients with chronic liver disease other than primary biliary cirrhosis, ...

Solution: By the adjunction formula, the canonical divisor class is KC = OC(d− 3), that is, plane curves of degree d− 3 cut out canonical divisors on C. It follows that if d ≥ 4 then any two points p, q ∈ C impose independent conditions on the canonical series |KC |; that is, h(KC(−p − q)) = g − 2, so by Riemann-Roch h(OC(p+ q)) = 1, i.e., C is not hyperelliptic. Similarly, if d ≥ 5 then any th...

Background Ocular manifestations of transthyretin-related familial amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) mainly include keratoconjunctivitis sicca, secondary glaucoma and vitreous deposits. Because liver transplantation (LT) and symptomatic treatments greatly improve life expectancy of patients, ocular involvement is becoming a more frequent challenge to address. We aimed at studying the prevalence ...