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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510012

Psychological Progress in Schizophrenic Patients undergoing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Gillian Steggles

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: May 18, 2016

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses psychoanalytic principles in delivering psychotherapy which supports patients as well as informing them about themselves and the external world through psychoanalytic interpretations. Undergoing a psychoanalysis can be very stressful, and requires ego strength that allows assimilation of personal knowledge by the patient and its utilization within the personality....

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4037.1510011

Psychometric Properties of the Swedish Version of the Personality Inventory NEO-PI-3

Hakan Kallmen, Peter Wennnberg, Per Andreasson and Hans Bergman

Article Type: Short Communication | First Published: March 30, 2016

Background: The NEO-PI and its successors (NEO-PI-R and the latest NEO-PI-3) are among the most commonly used instruments to assess personality internationally. The American version of NEO-PI-3 is adapted to modern language and is more readable than its predecessors. Aims: The present study describes the development of the Swedish version of the NEO-PI-3 and its psychometric properties. Methods: A...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410057

Orbital Contracture Repair Using the Radial Forearm Free Flap: A Nine and Ten Year Follow-up

Brian T Andrews, Russell B Smith, Todd E Thurston and Keith D Carter

Article Type: Case Series | First Published: June 01, 2016

Introduction: Orbital contracture is a severe cicatricial process within the enucleated orbit prohibiting the use of an ocular prosthesis and often requires socket expansion procedures. We hypothesize that the RFFF provides stable long-term expansion of the contracted orbit and allows for continued ocular prosthesis use without the accumulation of keratin debris. Methods: A retrospective chart rev...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410056

Introduction of a Toric Intraocular Lens to a Non-Refractive Cataract Practice: Challenges and Outcomes

Clare Kirwan, John M Nolan, Jim Stack, Ian Dooley, Johnny Moore, Tara CB Moore and Stephen Beatty

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 25, 2016

Aim: To identify challenges inherent in introducing a toric intraocular lens (IOL) to a non-refractive cataract practice, and evaluate residual astigmatism achieved and its impact on patient satisfaction. Methods: Following introduction of a toric IOL to a cataract practice with all procedures undertaken by a single, non-refractive, surgeon (SB), pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative d...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410055

Blue-colored Cystic Mass in Newborn Babies

Titap Yazicioglu and Isil Kutluturk

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 25, 2016

The medical records of twelve newborn infants between 15 days and 3 months of age, with the presence of an unilateral dark-blue mass in the medial canthal region, as soon as after birth, were rewieved retrospectively. The management protocol was consisted of the warm compress and massage over the mass, and antibiotics when dacryocystitis developed. Nasolacrimal duct probing was performed in cases ...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410054

Color Doppler Imaging and Glaucoma: Comparison of Doppler Waveform of Retrobulbar Vessels between a Glaucomatous Patient and a Healthy Subject

Alice Chandra Verticchio Vercellin, Sara Lombardo, Carlo Cutolo, Carmine Tinelli and Giovanni Milano

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 24, 2016

Ocular blood flow abnormalities are believed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). For this reason the Color Doppler Imaging (CDI) evaluation of the retro bulbar vessels is used for research purposes to investigate the degree of these abnormalities and their role in the pathogenesis of PAOG. The most widely measured variables are peak systolic velocit...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410053

Aflibercept for the Treatment of Recalcitrant Macular Degeneration: Results from a One Year Prospective Cohort Study. The Auckland Experience

David Squirrell, Priya Samalia, Leo Sheck, Rachel Barnes and Dianne Sharp

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 23, 2016

Purpose: To investigate the effect of switching patients with neovascular age related macular degeneration (nAMD) non-responsive to bevacizumab or ranibizumab to intravitreal aflibercept 2 mg on best corrected visual acuity, macula volume, and central macula thickness. Methods: 50 patients with nAMD non-responsive to bevacizumab or ranibizumab received 2 mg intravitreal aflibercept, at three 4-wee...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410052

Binocular Correction in Patients with Central Retinal Impairment

Mgr. Matej Skrbek and MUDr. Svatopluk Synek

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 21, 2016

Many of visual functions are usually impaired by serious retinal diseases. With different speed of progression, the point of sharpest vision is being damaged and visual acuity as well as contrast sensitivity and fixation stability declines. Instead of the damaged fovea the new preferred retinal points are arising and taking over its function as the referential position for the whole motoric system...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410051

The Surgical Outcome of two Different Tear Drainage Tube in the Proximal Obstruction of Lacrimal System

Titap Yazicioglu and Isil Kutluturk

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: May 19, 2016

Complete proximal canalicular obstruction is one of the main cause of epiphora among patients complaining about ocular discomfort in their daily life. This functional disturbance is traditionally treated by a lacrimal bypass surgery named conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy (CDCR). Other indications for this surgery are lacrimal pump failure associated with facial palsy and epiphora despite a patent ...

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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5726/1510037

Chronic Large Joint Synovitis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Finding What You Look For

B Hodkinson, I Okpechi and SA Botha-Scheepers

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: July 03, 2016

A 30-year-Black African female was diagnosed with SLE when she presented with a Coombs positive haemolytic anaemia, lymphopenia, polyarthritis, oral ulcers and a malar rash. Her antinuclear antigen (ANA) was positive, she had hypocomplementaemia and she was HIV negative. She was commenced on oral corticosteroids (initially high dose 60 mg/day and later weaned to 15 mg daily), chloroquine sulphate ...

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