PURPOSE We investigated chief complaints and ocular disorders in infants under one year of age and analyzed the association between complaints and disorders. METHODS The medical records of 815 infants were reviewed. Chief complaints were grouped into the following 11 categories: eyelid drooping, epiphora (tearing), ocular discharge, lid swelling, eyelashes touching the eyeball, abnormalities ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) commonly causes eye movement abnormalities that may have a significant impact on patients' disability. Inflammatory demyelinating lesions, especially occurring in the posterior fossa, result in a wide range of disorders, spanning from acquired pendular nystagmus (APN) to internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO), among the most common. As the control of eye movements is well un...

Corticosteroids are being rn;;ed in different ophthalmic disorder as anti-inflamatory agent.  A.C.T.H. stimulated the supra renal glands and causes an increase steroid concentration of the blood. Corticosteroids can be used as anti­inflamatory agent locally ar.d systemically.  The new corticom,teroids like prednison, dex­xametason and prednisolon are more effective ( 5 to 10 times) than the o...

About 90% of the world's population is exposed to air pollutants beyond limits World Health Organization (WHO) recommended. Due regular contact atmospheric with cornea, tear film, and conjunctiva, present in have direct access these ocular structures. Exposure different parts eye polluted results burning redness eye, disorders, several other problems. Several studies shown drastic impact pollut...

With the aging of global population, health care burden Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia is considered to increase dramatically in coming decades. Given insufficiency effective interventions for AD dementia, clinical research on identifying potentially modifiable risk factors early diagnostic biomarkers becomes a public priority. Currently, extracerebral manifestations with large proportio...

In recent past [1]-[2], many neurological disorders diagnosed with the help of eye movement signals. Such type of disorders is reflected through the abnormalities of eye movements. This is why eye movement signals are being utilized for identification of such brain level abnormalities [6]-[11]. The key factor that is associated with such identification is the combined nature of human eye moveme...

INTRODUCTION To describe musculoskeletal symptoms, skin disorders and visual impairment among fishermen in the Divisional Secretariat Division of Kalpitiya. METHODS This was a community based descriptive cross sectional study conducted from August to October 2011. The sample consisted of 465 fishermen with ≥ 6 months experience in fishing selected using the cluster sampling technique. An inte...