We read with great interest the recently published study by Li et al and would like to provide feedback on a several issues related to their methodology, statistical analysis, and sample selection. This study is described as both a case-control study …
Month: January 2014
Author reply – Corrected Proof
First, We really appreciate Huisingh and McGwin’s interest in our recent publication regarding the study of suppression in patients with anisometropic amblyopia. However, the concerns they raise in their recent correspondence are not directly relevant to our study. The aim of our study was not to measure suppression before and after occlusion therapy. Rather, measurements of suppression, stereopsis, and visual acuity were made in observers with amblyopia (cases) and age-matched observers without amblyopia (controls). For a number of measurements, visual acuity was decreased in the nondominant eye of each control using optical defocus so that it matched the amblyopic eye (Read more...)
Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 polymorphisms are associated with components of energy balance in the CODING study
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Speaker: ‘Please stop using PERRLA’ when examining patients for neuro-ophthalmic conditions
KOLOA, Hawaii – When examining a neuro-ophthalmic patient, physicians must check the pupil in the light and the dark, a presenter said here. “If you’re using the abbreviation PERRLA – pupil, equal, round, reactive to light and accommodation – please stop,” Andrew G. Lee, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology in Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, said during a mini-symposium on neuro-ophthalmology at the Hawaiian Eye meeting. “Because the pupil can be equal, round and reactive to both light and accommodation and have a whopping relative afferent pupil defect (Read more...)