Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-346X/1410021
A Test for Progressive Myopia and the Role of Latent Accommodation in its Development
Kodikullam V Avudainayagam, Chitralekha S Avudainayagam and Nicholas H Nguyen
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 10, 2015
Purpose: To determine whether those myopes who respond like hyperopes when tested with a multivergence hologram are progressive myopes and to investigate the role of latent accommodation in the development of progressive myopia. Methods: Recently, we introduced a specially designed hologram to test the vision of spectacle corrected subjects. A subject viewing through this hologram would see the real and virtual images of different test letters at various distances....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410031
Collision Tumor: Dermoid Cysts and Mucinous Cystadenoma in the Same Ovary and a Review of the Literature
Mehmet Suhha Bostanci, Ozge Kizilkale Yildirim, Gazi Yildirim, Murat Bakacak, Isin Dogan Ekinci, Sevgi Bilgen and Rukset Attar
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 31, 2015
Collision tumor is defined as the coexistence of two adjacent, but histologically distinct tumors without histological admixture in the same tissue or organ. Collision tumors involving ovaries are extremely rare. The coexistence of a mucinous cystadenoma with a dermoid cyst is infrequently reported. However, the most common histological combination of collision tumor in the ovary is the coexistence of teratoma with mucinous tumors....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410027
Effect of Diabetes Mellitus on Metabolic Biomarker Levels in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease or Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty
J. Saluk, Bansal V, Banos A, Hopkinson W, Rees H, Syed D, Hoppensteadt D, Abro S and Iqbal O and Fareed J
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 28, 2015
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a proven risk factor for diseases such as end stage renal disease (ESRD) and osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, it is not unreasonable to assume that some of the ESRD/ OA pathogenesis, namely inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, could be attributed to DM as a comorbitity. This study aims to investigate DM's effect on metabolic biomarker levels in patients with ESRD or undergoing total joint arthroplasty....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-9004/1410030
Hybrid Arc Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiation Therapy for Pelvic Relapse of Gynecologic Malignancies
Charles A Kunos, Howard Shaffer and Jeffrey M Fabien
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: March 30, 2015
Relapsed gynecologic cancers are difficult to control in the pelvis, especially when surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments have already been administered. For this clinical scenario, stereotactic body radiation therapy has emerged as a meaningful treatment strategy. The new Vero stereotactic body radiation therapy system uses coplanar and noncoplanar radiation treatment beams with submillimeter precision to treat cancer targets....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410026
Trends in the Occurrence of Type 2 Diabetes in Community-Dwelling Trinidadian Subjects, 1993-2014
Koreen Peter, Lilly Paul, Renee Richardson, Brandon Ramdass, Aisha Ali and Kameel Mungrue
Article Type: Research Article | First Published: March 24, 2015
301 participants were entered into the study. There was ethnic disparity but a reversal from South East to Africans. A strong inverse linear relationship (Pearson's coefficient r=-0.82, p ≤ 0.05) was found between BMI and age at diabetes onset. Between the 1990's and 2004-2014 in two regions of Trinidad the number of patients with T2DM doubled, occurring more commonly among females, the obese and overweight, a tendency towards younger age groups and those of lower socioeconomic status (SES...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3516/1410020
Spontaneous Bacterial Pleuritis from Respiratory Source and High Adenosine Deaminase Level
Alberto Garcia-Zamalloa, Mar Zabalo, Milagros Berruete and Elena Telleria
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: April 08, 2015
An obese 85 year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of extreme dyspnoea after one week with fever and cough. She had been previously diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic renal failure with creatinine 2 mg/dl, glomerular fitrate 25 ml/min; and cirrhosis with moderate persistent ascites despite diuretic treatment and mild pleural effusion reaching a fit of the right hemithorax....