purpose : to report a rare case of a patient with hypoparathyroidism presenting with bilateral disc swelling and near mature cataract as her first clinical manifestation case report : a 23-year-old woman presented with complaint of worsening vision since one year ago and a history of refractory seizures and headache for several years, being under treatment with lamotrigine 50 mg/daily. slit-lam...

The swelling of the corneal buttons in aqueous solution can be prevented by adding high molecular weight solutes to the bathing medium. In appropriate concentrations of these colloidal substances the button can be dehydrated, a matter of some significance in clinical situations. Swelling of the cornea in the intact eye in vitro can be similarly prevented. The suggestion is made that swelling is...

† Ghent University. ‡ National Institutes of Health. § University Utrecht. * Corresponding author: Tel 0032-(0)9 264 80 76; fax 0032-(0)9 264 81 89; e-mail [email protected]. Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics, Ghent University, Harelbekestraat 72, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics, NICHD, National Instit...

Massive Cerebral Infarction with Severe Brain Swelling • All cases of acute supratentorial cerebral infarction which came to postmortem examination over the past 10 years at the Philadelphia General Hospital were reviewed. Of a total of 353 such cases, 45 showed severe brain swelling. Seventy-eight percent of these 45 patients died within seven days of the acute infarction. The rapidly fatal ou...

Massive Cerebral Infarction with Severe Brain Swelling • All cases of acute supratentorial cerebral infarction which came to postmortem examination over the past 10 years at the Philadelphia General Hospital were reviewed. Of a total of 353 such cases, 45 showed severe brain swelling. Seventy-eight percent of these 45 patients died within seven days of the acute infarction. The rapidly fatal ou...

Spinal cord swelling is an indication of severe spinal cord injury (SCI) and may have negative effects on neurological outcome. Spinal cord swelling has been observed clinically and in animal models but is still not well understood and has never been mechanically quantified in terms of stress, strain or pressure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using fiber optic pre...