Prophylactic corneal crosslinking in myopic small-incision lenticule extraction - Long-term visual and refractive outcomes

Purpose: To analyze the efficacy, safety, predictability, and stability in myopic and astigmatic small?incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) with simultaneous prophylactic corneal crosslinking (CXL) in thin corneas. Methods: A total of 48 eyes from 24 patients who underwent myopic and astigmatism SMILE with simultaneous prophylactic CXL were included in this retrospective study. All patients had a 24?month follow?up. A femtosecond laser was performed with VisuMax (Carl Zeiss Meditec). CXL treatment was applied when the predicted stromal thickness was less than 330 ?m. Results: The patients’ mean age was 31.58 ± 6.23 years. The previous mean spherical equivalent was ? 6.85 ± 1.80 (?9.75 to ? 2.00) D. The postoperative mean spherical equivalent was ? 0.50 ± 0.26 (?1.00 to + 0.25) D; 60% of the eyes had 20/20 or better; 19% lost one line; 58% were within ± 0.50 D; and 8.3% of the eyes changed 0.50 D or more between 3 and 24 months. Conclusion: Prophylactic CXL with simultaneous SMILE for myopia and astigmatism femtosecond laser surgery technique appears to be partially effective, safe, predictable, and stable after 24 months of follow?up

Obesidad, resistencia a la insulina y diabetes mellitus tipo 2 en adolescentes / Obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adolescents

Introducción. La obesidad está considerada como un problema de salud pública. Su presencia a edades tempranas implica una obligación de identificar la aparición de complicaciones como resistencia a la insulina y diabetes mellitus (DM). Métodos. Estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal. Participaron 1206 mujeres adolescentes. Se definió la obesidad con valores de IMC ≥ 95p según la OMS. Se determinó niveles séricos de insulina, glucosa y perfil lipídico. Se usó el Homeostasis Model of Assesmente Index (HOMA-I), mediante la ecuación de Matthews con el valor ≥ 3,16 para definir resistencia a la insulina (RI). Para las dislipidemias: hipercolesterolemia ≥ 200 mg/dL, bajo C-HDL ≤ 40 mg/dL, alto C-LDL ≥ 130 mg/dL e hipetrigliceridemia ≥ 130 mg/dL. A las adolescentes obesas con RI se les hizo una prueba de tolerancia oral a la glucosa (PTG): glicemia de 140 a 199 mg/dL intolerantes a la glucosa y ≥ 200 mg/dL diabéticas. Resultados. El 25,1% (303) de la población fue obesa; 246 adolescentes obesas participaron de la evaluación bioquímica, 28,1% (69) de ellas presentaron RI. En las adolescentes obesas con y sin RI, el promedio de las variables bioquímicas en las primeras fueron mayores, siendo estas diferencias significativas estadísticamente, salvo el C-HDL. Diferencias entre la prevalencia de dislipidemias fueron significativas a excepción del C-HDL. La RI presentó un OR de 10,9 (IC 5,4-26,6), 12,1 (IC 4,9-30,1), y 7,6 (IC 3-19,5) con la hipertrigliceridemia, hipercolesterolemia y C-LDL alto. La PTG mostró un 3,3% de intolerantes y ninguna diabética. Conclusiones. El 28,1% (69) de adolescentes obesas presentaron RI; ninguna participante del estudio presentó DM.

Introduction. Obesity is considered a public health problem. Its presence at an early age implies an obligation to identify the onset of complications such as insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods. Observational, descriptive and transversal study. Participated 1206 teenage women. Obesity was defined with BMI values ≥95p according WHO. Serum levels of insulin, glucose and lipid profile were determined. The Homeostasis Model of Assesment Index (HOMA-I) was used, using the Matthews equation with the value ≥ 3,16 to define insulin resistance (RI). For dyslipidemias: hypercholesterolemia ≥ 200 mg/dL, low HDL-C ≤ 40 mg/dL, high C-LDL ≥ 130 mg / dL and hypetriglyceridemia ≥ 130 mg/dL. The obese teenagers with RI underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (PTG): glycemia of 140 to 199 mg / dL intolerant to glucose and ≥ 200 mg/dL as diabetic. Results 25,1% (303) of the population was obese; 246 obese adolescents participated in the biochemical evaluation, 28,1% (69) of them presented RI. In the obese teenagers with and without IR, the average of the biochemical variables in the former were higher, these differences being statistically significant, except for HDL-C. Differences between the prevalence of dyslipidemias were significant except for HDL-C. The IR presented an OR of 10,9 (CI 5,4-26,6), 12,1 (CI 4,9-30,1), and 7,6 (CI 3-19,5) with hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia and high LDL-C. The PTG showed 3,3% intolerant and none diabetic. Conclusions: 28,1% (69) of obese adolescents presented RI; no study participant presented DM.

Efficiency of RAPD, ISSR, AFLP and ISTR markers for the detection of polymorphisms and genetic relationships in camote de cerro (Dioscorea spp. )

Background At present, species known as camote de cerro (Dioscorea spp.) are found only in the wilderness in Mexico, but their populations are extremely depleted because they are indiscriminately collected, it is urgent to evaluate the conservation status of these plants in order to design conservation genetics programs. In this study, genetic diversity parameters along with cluster analysis based on Jaccard's coefficient were estimated with the objective to assess the efficiency of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD), Inter Simple Sequence Repeat (ISSR), Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and Inverse Sequence Tagged Repeat (ISTR) molecular DNA markers in the Dioscorea genus. Results The polymorphic information contents were quite similar for all markers (≈0.48). Genetic variation of Dioscorea spp., in terms of average heterozygosity was lower with ISTR (0.36), and higher when other markers were used (RAPD = 0.43; ISSR = 0.45 and AFLP = 0.47). Conclusion This indicates an important level of genetic differences despite the fact that the plant is asexually propagated. Based on the diversity statistics, any marker tested in present work can be recommended for use in large-scale genetic studies of populations. However, the low correlations among different molecular marker systems show the importance of the complementarity of the information that is generated by different markers for genetic studies involving estimation of polymorphism and relationships.