Routine vitamin A supplementation in under five children has been recommended to improve child survival(l). The World Health Organization/United Nations Children Fund/International Vitamin A Consultative Group (WHO/ UNICEF/ IVACG) Task Force recommends universal distribution of vitamin A in countries where xerophthalmia is a significant public health problem which includes India as well (2). It...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and serologic profile, the rate of progression to well defined CTD and the possible predictors of disease evolution in patients affected by UCTD with antibodies anti-RoISSA. METHODS 148 patients diagnosed as UCTD were retrospectively evaluated. Antibodies to SSA/Ro were determined by counter-immunoelectrophoresis and ELISA. RESULTS Thirty-six patients (24....

Sjögren's syndrome is a chronic multisystem autoimmune disease characterized by the exocrine glands inflammation, with subsequent hypofunction. More frequently lachrymal and salivary glands are interested with subsequent xerophthalmia and xerostomia. Sjögren's syndrome can be present in an idiopathic type or in association with other autoimmune diseases as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus e...

OBJECTIVE To share our experience of 154 cases of clinical vitamin A deficiency in Pakistani children. METHODS AND RESULTS The data on age, sex, date of presentation and clinical stage of vitamin A deficiency was recorded. A total of 154 children aged 0-15 years suffering from clinical vitamin A deficiency (xerophthalmia) were recorded. One hundred and twenty three (79.9%) children were 0-6 y...

BACKGROUND Although there has been a considerable reduction in the infective causes of ocular morbidity, the global burden of blindness has not significantly altered for over a decade. OBJECTIVES To find the extent of ocular morbidity in different subgroups of the rural population and to study the factors associated with ocular morbidity. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was co...

UNLABELLED Salivary gland dysfunction has been described in patients undergoing radioiodine therapy but associated lacrimal gland dysfunction (sicca syndrome) has never been reported. We conducted a prospective cohort study with follow-up for up to 3 y in a tertiary care university center to determine the prevalence of sicca syndrome in patients after high-dose radioiodine treatment. METHODS ...

Vitamin A deficiency is present worldwide in the developing countries. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and the Philippines appear to be the most afflicted but many countries in Africa and some in Central and South America have the same problem. The most tragic manifestation of the deficiency is blindness in young children; xerophthalmia, leading to keratomalacia with melting or dense scarring of t...

Objective: To study the prevalence of ocular morbidity (abnormal condition) and various factors affecting it among school attending adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to study abnormal ocular conditions like refractive errors, vitamin A deficiency, conjunctivitis, trachoma, ocular trauma, blephritis, stye, color blindness and pterygium among school adolescents of 10-19 ...