Dengue fever may occasionally present with high fever, hemorrhagic phenomena and circulatory failure (dengue hemorrhagic fever) or rarely as dengue septic shock.1 A 22 years, non-diabetic and non-hypertensive female patient was evaluated for three-day old high-grade fever. Relevant clinical signs included high fever, multiple skin petechiae and bleeding gums leading to a clinical diagnosis of d...

suewith fibroadiposeelements,muscle, andbloodvessels.Our patient had each of these elements. Conservative treatment includes observation with aspiration as needed. In recalcitrant cases not amenable to aspiration or if considerable facial dysmorphism exists, excision is conventionally undertaken. In summary, congenital cystic eye is exceedingly rare. Diagnosishistoricallywasbasedonphysical andh...

A 37-year-old man presented with an optic nerve pit and serous macular detachment of the left eye. Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy revealed a cyst-like structure terminating at the pit in the premacular vitreous. During ocular movement, this structure moved vigorously and seemed to exert traction on the pit. We believe that it is part of an anomalous Cloquet's canal, and that traction on the pit ...

PURPOSE To describe the vitreoretinal interface of the asymptomatic fellow eyes of patients with acute unilateral posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) based on biomicroscopic examination and spectral domain optical coherence tomography. METHODS Sixty-five eyes of 65 consecutive patients with acute unilateral PVD were examined by slit-lamp, indirect ophthalmoscopy, and spectral domain optical c...

A woman of 23 attended the accident and emergency department after feeling unwell and acutely short of breath for one day. She used salmeterol, beclomethasone and salbutamol inhalers for asthma; otherwise there was no medical history of note. On examination she was tachypnoeic, tachycardic and unable to complete full sentences. Temperature was normal. There were widespread wheezes in the chest....

To investigate the morphological characteristics of myopic macular retinoschisis (MRS) in teenagers with high myopia, six male (9 eyes) and 3 female (4 eyes) teenagers with typical MRS identified from chart review were evaluated. All cases underwent complete ophthalmic examinations including best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), indirect ophthalmoscopy, colour fundus photography, B-type ultrason...

abstract background: high resolution ct scan has made early diagnosis of intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) easier. posttraumatic intraventricular hemorrhage has been reported to a greater extent because of the ct scan. methods: 904 patients were admitted in the nsicu from march 2001 to march 2002 with severe closed head injury, of those only 31 patients with intraventricular hemorrhage (gcs les...

This is a case of Valsalva retinopathy during the season annual transboundary haze pollution in Sarawak. A 22-year-old man with no known medical illness developed sudden onset painless visual acuity loss preceded by persistent cough. Left eye fundus showed dense preretinal haemorrhage covering optic disc extendinginferiorly breakthrough vitreous haemorrhage. The patient underwent pars plana vit...