Nile virus ranges from 3 to 14 days. Two serosurveys have shown that approximately 1 in 150 infections resulted in meningitis or encephalitis, but most human infections remain subclinical. The reported symptoms and signs associated with West Nile virus infection include fever, malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, headache, myalgia, rash, and lymphadenopathy. The frequencies of various symptoms ...

PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of multifocal pupillographic objective perimetry (mfPOP) to quantify the effects of intravitreal ranibizumab injection for choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS mfPOP visual fields from 20 patients with unilateral exudative AMD treated with intravitreal ranibizumab were measured before and ...

PURPOSE To study the association of ARMS2 A69S genotype with the development of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the unaffected fellow eye and to estimate the duration until the development of AMD in the second eye. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 326 patients who had exudative AMD in at least 1 eye, genotyping of ARMS2 A69S, and a m...

Introduction: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases. Despite its proven role in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, it is infrequently used, which could be because of cost of equipment and lack of training. We analyzed our initial 3 years record of thoracoscopy at Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, a tertiary care center in Hi...

Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2009;100:329-43 333 To the Editor: There are several types of dermatosis that may occur around the melanocytic nevi, although there are few reported cases of each of these. The most representative of these dermatoses is halo nevus1 (Sutton nevus, leucoderma acquisitum centrifugum), but there are other named examples including Meyerson nevus2 (halo dermatitis), targetoid ne...

Exudative enteropathy is a clinical syndrome characterized by excessive loss of proteins through the gastrointestinal tract and rare complication various diseases. One rarest causes protein malabsorption Langerhans cell histiocytosis, which occurs as result inflammatory neoplasia myeloid precursor cells caused mutations in mitogenactivated kinase pathway. Abnormal proliferation accumulation int...

Fibronectin is a glycoprotein found in body fluids, loose connective tissue matrix and in basement membranes. Fibronectin in pleural effusion was found to be immunologically indistinguishable from the plasma form, as shown by double-diffusion analysis. Fibronectin isolated from pleural fluid by affinity chromatography on gelatin-Sepharose had a polypeptide pattern similar to that of plasma fibr...

PURPOSE To assess the incidence of vitreomacular adhesion and traction in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and to evaluate surgical treatment in a subset of patients with choroidal neovascularization (CNV) nonresponsive to anti-neovascular growth factor (anti-VEGF) treatment. DESIGN Retrospective observational case-control and interventional case series. METHODS Spectral optical cohe...

Background: Pleural fluid (PF) may be transudative or exudative. Total protein estimation from PF is used to detect exudative pleural effusion. Objectives: To determine the role of new suggested criteria consisting of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), total proteins (TP), and adenosine deaminase (ADA) in diagnosis of pleural effusion and differentiate it into transudative and exudative and also to c...