SIMULTANEOUS VITREORETINAL SURGERY AND PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY WITHOUT A KERATOPROSTHESIS OR ENDOSCOPY FOR VITREORETINAL DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH CORNEAL OPACITY

Simultaneous Vitreoretinal Surgery and Penetrating Keratoplasty without a Keratoprosthesis or Endoscopy for Vitreoretinal Disease Associated with Corneal Opacity

We evaluated the visual outcome of combined penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) and 25G pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) performed without a temporary keratoprosthesis or endoscopy in a patient with vitreoretinal disease complicated by severe corneal opacity.The patient was a 68-year-old woman who had severe corneal opacity and silicone L-PHENYLALANINE oil i

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The implication of targeting PD-1:PD-L1 pathway in treating sepsis through immunostimulatory and anti-inflammatory pathways

Sepsis currently remains a major contributor to mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU), with 48.9 million cases reported globally and a mortality rate of 22.5% in 2017, accounting for almost 20% of all-cause mortality worldwide.This highlights the urgent need to improve the understanding and treatment of this condition.Sepsis is now Dry Shampoo

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Direct and Indirect vSLAM Fusion for Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology that is applied in many fields.One of the limitations that still prevents AR to be even more widely used relates to the accessibility of devices.Indeed, the devices currently used are usually high end, expensive glasses or mobile devices.vSLAM (visual simultaneous localization and mapping) algorithms

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Brain structural abnormalities in behavior therapy-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder revealed by voxel-based morphometry

Nobuhiko Hashimoto,1 Shutaro Nakaaki,2 Akiko Kawaguchi,1 Junko Sato,1 Harumasa Kasai,3 Takashi Nakamae,4 Jin Narumoto,4 Jun Miyata,5 Toshi A Furukawa,6,7 Masaru Mimura2 1Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan; 2Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio Universi

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