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Corneal Ulcer/etiology , Graft vs Host Disease/complications , Keratoplasty, Penetrating , Serum , Adult , Chronic Disease , Humans , Male , Ophthalmic SolutionsABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To describe the range of indications for contact lenses and the types of lenses being used in an NHS hospital-based specialist medical contact lens clinic and contrast this with information from 12 years ago. METHODS: A retrospective audit of 596 clinic attendances was performed in the contact lens clinic at the Western Eye Hospital between April 2002 and March 2003. The results were compared with a similar audit performed in 1991. We used the hospitals electronic records, and information on contact lens prescribing was obtained directly from the receipts generated by the contact lens department and the accounts department. RESULTS: We saw 392 patients with 88.5% of patients requiring 2 or less visits per year. The majority of referrals are for high myopia (28.6%) closely followed by aphakia (25.2%) and keratoconus (24.7%). This is in contrast to 1991 when 68% of referrals were for aphakia and twice as many myopes (17%) were seen as keratoconus patients (8%). A total of 560 lenses were prescribed with 68 different types of lens in use. The seven most commonly used lens types accounted for 61% of all lenses prescribed. CONCLUSIONS: Medical contact lens clinics provide a specialist service and also provide an important training resource for junior ophthalmologists. Safer cataract surgical techniques have had a significant impact on the case mix seen in our clinic, with the emphasis moving away from aphakic and myopic patients and toward the more challenging to fit eyes with keratoconus or postcorneal surgery.
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Contact Lenses/statistics & numerical data , Prescriptions/statistics & numerical data , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Child , Corneal Diseases/therapy , Female , Hospitals, Special/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Ophthalmology/statistics & numerical data , Prosthesis Fitting , Refractive Errors/therapy , Retrospective Studies , United KingdomABSTRACT
Os autores apresentam o caso de um paciente de 35 anos do sexo masculino, branco que apresentava lesöes pigmentadas orais associadas a disfagia, cujo único fator predisponente era anemia ferropriva de longa data, secundária e gastrectomia. O caso reveste-se de interese pela sua particularidade, assim como pelo diagnóstico diferencial com outras patologias, além do tempo necessário para identificar-se a etiologia
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Humans , Male , Adult , Anemia, Hypochromic/complications , Mouth Diseases/etiology , Iron/deficiency , Pigmentation , Anemia, Hypochromic/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Mouth Diseases/diagnosisABSTRACT
The effects of the selective 5-HT2 receptor antagonists, ritanserin (1, 5 and 10 mg) and ICI 169.369 (50 and 100 mg), were studied on the sleep EEG of healthy volunteers using home-based Medilog 9000 cassette monitoring. Ritanserin (5 and 10 mg) produced a significant increase in slow wave sleep (SWS) while ICI 169,369 also increased SWS but only at a dose of 100 mg. These findings are consistent with the proposal that selective 5-HT2 receptor blockade increases SWS in humans; however, the data cannot exclude involvement of the closely related 5-HT1c receptor in this effect.
