Visual Field Damage in Myopic Glaucoma
(5.1) Where TDi is the TD value at the i-th test point, A and B are regression coefficients, and C is a regression constant. The extent of age-corrected damage at…
Ocular Blood Flow in Myopic Glaucoma
Fig. 8.1 Morphological changes in the optic nerve head with progression of myopia. (a) Fundus photograph of a myopic eye in a 14-year-old male patient. (b) Fundus photograph of the…
An Epidemiologic Perspective
Ethnicity Country Project Age range (years) Participation rate (%) No. samples Myopia (<−0.5 diopters) Myopia (<−1.0D) High myopia (<−5 D) High myopia (<−6 D) Caucasian USA Baltimore Eye Survey [24]…
High Myopia and Myopic Glaucoma: Anterior Segment Features
Fig. 7.1 Experimental myopia induced by monocular lid fusion of monkey eyes demonstrates the distension of the postequatorial hemisphere of the eye [1] 7.2 Myopic Changes in Cornea Intraocular pressure…
A Brief History of Vaccines
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract Heading almost due west from London, the train passes city outskirts and urban fringe housing before the landscape becomes…
The Future of a Killer
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract The first, documented 100 years of cerebrospinal meningitis, during which the clinical course and worldwide occurrence of diseases were…
Success for Half
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract When Dr. Martin Randolph came to Danbury, a small city in the southwestern corner of Connecticut, in 1948, the…
Towards a Vaccine
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract As Americans were becoming progressively more deeply involved in Vietnam, first as “advisors” but subsequently in the mid-1960s as…
That Soluble Specific Substance
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract Bacterial infections, as we have seen, remained a cause of significant morbidity and mortality well into the first half…
A Singular Disease
(1) Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA, USA Abstract The convergence of thought engendered by Pasteur’s confirmation of the germ theory of disease, along with technological advances in…
