Clinical Picture A 66-year-old lady with known MM presented with red painful right eye and reduced vision, with no ocular discharge. At the point of presentation, she had been diagnosed with MM for 2 months. She did not suffer from auto-immune diseases. Systemic examination was unremarkable. Blood test for rheumatoid factor, pANCA, cANCA, ANA and dsDNA were negative. Inflammatory markers were n...

We provide a derivation of the percolation threshold for a two-dimensional triangular lattice. We then proceed to model an ensemble of skewed square lattices with randomly punched out squares, which is topologically equivalent to triangular lattice percolation. We investigate the behavior of the magnitude of the Casimir force between the percolating plate and the solid plate. We find evidence w...

A 54-year-old man was treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) after undergoing living donor renal transplantation. Two years later, he experienced repeated episodes of diarrhea, and his C-reactive protein (CRP) level was found to be 12.63 mg/dL. Ileocolonoscopy showed multiple deep, punched-out ulcers that were similar to Behçet's disease (BD) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the ileum. CMV infect...

We describe the case of a 44-year-old woman with primary Burkitt lymphoma of the heart who presented with abdominal bloating and epigastric discomfort secondary to tamponade physiology caused by a large pericardial effusion. The pericardial fluid contained a large number of highly atypical lymphocytes with moderate basophilic cytoplasm, rare punched-out vacuoles, a vesicular nuclear chromatin, ...

A 38-year-old man from the Ohio Valley area presented to the Ophthalmology Cinic at a west coast hospital (USA) because of sudden loss of the right inferior temporal visual field after severe right frontal headache of several hours' duration. During the following months, diffuse peripapillary atrophy and peripheral punched-out lesions developed. When he had been seen initially, the fundus of th...

E lectronic voting has been around since the 1970s, but until the US’s 2000 Gore-Bush presidential election, it was largely out of the public eye. After the Florida punched-card debacle, it became clear that our election infrastructure needed renovation. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandated a solution of sorts, making US$3 billion available to states to move away from their long-lived, we...

Prevailing opinion still appears to be with Gonin who has taught that a hole or tear in the retina is the cause of detachment and that to cure this detachment it is all-important to localize the hole and occlude it by some means or other. If the operation is not successful in closing the hole or tear, the detachment recurs. His theory is however disputed by many, notwithstanding the fact that t...