the SAFE strategy for avoiding blindness and pain from trachoma. It often has to be performed by non-specialist workers in remote places. The World Health Organization (WHO) is rightly promoting bilamellar rotation as a standard operation, 1 but its method presents difficulties even for trained surgeons. 2 In the technique described by WHO, the lid is held by two artery forceps; however, it is ...

Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae infection and remains a major public health problem in many areas of the world. Challenges to its timely diagnosis result in delay in treatment, which is usually associated with severe disability. Although phenolic glycolipid (PGL)-I has been reported as auxiliary diagnostic tool, currently there is no serological assay routinely used in leprosy diagnos...

This study investigates the effect of lid motion on the optimal characteristics a thin rectangular fin attached on the hot wall of a square lid-driven cavity with active vertical walls. The optimal fin position is studied for Richardson numbers of 0.1-10. The effect of mounting a rectangular fin with a thermal conductivity of 1 and 1000 on minimization and maximization of heat transfer through ...

Plus minus lid syndrome is an ocular syndrome characterized by unilateral ptosis and contralateral lid retraction. Also when the ipsilateral lid is raised manually, the contralateral retracted lid does not revert. This patient presented with features of plus minus lid syndrome with ataxia due to a vascular mesencephalic lesion.

Chronic dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease (PD) leads to deleterious motor sequelae known as L-DOPAinduced dyskinesia (LID). No known therapeutic can eliminate LID, but preliminary evidence suggests that dl-1-isopropylamino-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-2-propanol [( )propranolol], a nonselective -adrenergic receptor ( AR) antagonist, may reduce LID. The present study used the rat unilater...

PURPOSE To compare the efficacy and safety of 0.1% dexamethasone/0.3% netilmicin (Netildex), with that of 0.1% dexamethasone/0.3% tobramycin (Tobradex) in the treatment of external ocular inflammation requiring antibiotic therapy. METHODS In this randomized, double-blind study, 139 subjects with conjunctival inflammation associated with signs of ocular infection were treated with Netildex (n ...

This study provides a comprehensive description of upper eyelid movement in normal human subjects. Using the magnetic search coil technique to monitor lid position and modified skin electrodes to record orbicularis oculi electromyographic (EMG) activity, the authors found that the basic eyelid movements, blinks, and saccadic lid movements, can be uniquely and reliably characterized by their amp...

PARADOXICAL lid retraction of the ptotic lid on occlusion of the sound eye and several other synkinetic oculopalpebral phenomena are described in the literature in relation to ophthalmoplegia, congenital as well as acquired (Lewallen, 1958; Walsh, 1957). Fuchs's phenomenon of lid retraction on lateral movement, the pseudo-Graefe phenomenon with depression and lid retraction on elevation, are al...