ABSTRACT Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of lifelong disability and death worldwide. Sport-related traumatic brain injury is an important public health concern. The purpose of this review was to highlight the importance of sport-related concussions. Concussion refers to a transient alteration in consciousness induced by external biomechanical forces transmitted directly or indirectly to the brain....
Uveitis is a group of intraocular inflammatory diseases that affects mainly patients of working age. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease is a chronic, granulomatous, systemic and autoimmune disease with manifestations in the eye, skin, and hearing and nervous systems. Ocular complications include cataract, glaucoma, choroidal neovascular membrane formation, and subretinal fibrosis, which can lead to phthisis bulbi wit...
RESUMO Com o objetivo de analisar a existência de alterações refracionais em portadores de cicatrizes de retinocoroidite toxoplásmica congênita macular bilateral e verificar se há maior prevalência de miopia nessa população, foram avaliados 96 pacientes entre 4 e 14 anos de idade (43 portadores de cicatrizes de retinocoroidite macular e 53 pacientes pertencentes ao grupo controle, sem outras afecções oculares),...