We describe the surgical technique of endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation in a Boston keratoprosthesis type II patient. This patient with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid had pars plana endoscopic cyclophotocoagula through wounds created in the eyelids.

PURPOSE To compare the morphologic features of keratic precipitates (KPs) by confocal microscopy in granulomatous versus nongranulomatous noninfectious uveitis. METHODS KP morphology was determined by confocal scan in patients with noninfectious granulomatous and noninfectious nongranulomatous uveitic cases. RESULTS One hundred and twenty-seven eyes of 90 subjects with noninfectious uveitis...

Collusion susceptible key predistribution schemes (KPS) are trade-offs between complexity and security. Measures of complexity include storage, computation and bandwidth overhead; a measure of security is their collusion resistance. Probabilistic KPSs (P-KPS) have some unique advantages in application scenarios where hardware assisted protection of secrets is mandatory. To facilitate a quantita...

In most countries, the burden of HIV among people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, and sex workers is disproportionately high compared with that in the general population. Meanwhile, coverage rates of effective interventions among those key populations (KPs) are extremely low, despite a strong evidence base about the effectiveness of currently available interventions. In its first d...

PURPOSE The aim is to describe the main characteristics of an anterior/posterior segment surgery and how to resolve intraoperative complications. Setting/Venue: The anterior and posterior segment surgical video was created at the Department of Ophthalmology, Virgin Macarena University Hospital, Seville, Spain. METHODS We present the case of a male with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and severe limb...

In this study, the fabrication and properties of a synthetic keratoprosthesis skirt for use in osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) surgery are discussed. In the search for a new material concept, bioactive glass and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)-based composites were prepared. Three different bioactive glasses (i.e. 45S5, S53P4 and 1-98) and one slowly resorbing glass, FL107, with two differe...

purpose : vitreoretinal surgery can be difficult or impossible in patients with corneal opacity. one solution for this problem is use of temporary keratoprosthesis (tkp). we report anatomical and visual outcomes of this combined surgery in our institution. methods : we retrospectively reviewed charts of patients in whom a tkp was used between 2006 and 2010 with follow-up of at least six months....

The Web mostly contains semi-structured information. It is, however, not easy to search and extract structural data hidden in a Web page. Current practices address this problem by (1) syntax analysis (i.e. HTML tags); or (2) wrappers or user-defined declarative languages. The former is only suitable for highly structured Web sites and the latter is time-consuming and offers low scalability. Wra...

To the Editor: The article by O'Dell et al. (1) that appeared in a recent issue of this journal highlights the validity of the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) in reflecting global health status in HIVinfected people. Even though this can be true for AIDS patients, we think that KPS might be an inadequate measure in less advanced patients such as those with HIV infection and without an AIDS-i...