BACKGROUND AND AIM: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is one of the most common infections which still affects individuals worldwide. The main route for transmission of H. pylori infection is the oral route and this microorganism has been detected in dental plaque. In past decades, there have been a number of controversies about the station of dental pl...

Purpose . To describe two ipsilateral, metachronous, ocular choroidal melanoma metastases. Material and methods A 64-year-old patient was initially treated with palladium-103 ophthalmic plaque brachytherapy which induced local control of the primary cancer. Seven years later, findings a second, discrete prompted restaging revealed new hepatic nodal Systemic immunotherapy (ipilimumab 3 mg/kg niv...

PURPOSE To determine whether adenovirus vectors are capable of transferring a foreign active protein to the perfused anterior segment of the human eye. METHODS Primary cultures from the human trabecular meshwork tissue were exposed to replication-deficient adenovirus Av1LacZ4 carrying the reporter beta-galactosidase gene driven by the Rous Sarcoma Virus promoter. Anterior segments of six pair...

An 86 year old woman experienced a sequential bilateral loss of vision over a period of less than 24 hours. Clinical findings and complementary studies suggested a bilateral atherogenic embolic event. Initially, she presented a superior branch retinal artery occlusion in her right eye followed by a central retinal artery occlusion with cilioretinal artery sparing in her left eye. Some conservat...

BACKGROUND Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy is an unusual, self-limited, inflammatory disease that affects the choriocapillaris, and external retinal layers. CLINICAL CASE A 26 year-old male patient complained of decreased visual acuity, as well as photopsia in both eyes for the past three days. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/80 in the...

background: consistency, backing process and content differences could influence cariogenic potential of foods. the aim was to compare plaque ph changes following consumption of two types of bread with different physical characteristics. methods: in this clinical trial, interproximal plaque ph of 10 volunteers with high risk of dental caries (saliva streptococcus mutans > 10 5 , high dental car...

A 98-year-old asymptomatic white female was referred with the incidental finding of a suspicious right iris mass. Medical history included treated hypertension and hypothyroidism. On examination, visual acuity was 20/60 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye. The left eye was structurally normal. In the right eye there was erosion of the iris root at the 1 o'clock position (Fig. 1). Through...