Croatian medical journal
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2004
Comparative StudyEpidemiology of adult eye injuries in Split-Dalmatian county.
To determine the incidence of eye injuries, population groups at risk, circumstances and activities at the time of accident, causes, mechanism, type and severity of injury, therapeutic procedures, final outcome, and the incidence of blindness in patients over 18 years of age. ⋯ There was a high incidence of ocular trauma and consequent blindness in Split-Dalmatian County. For the prevention of serious eye injuries, health education and safety strategies should be applied both at home and place of work, where blinding injuries most often occur.
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Croatian medical journal · Jun 2004
Prognostic factors in open eye injury managed with vitrectomy: retrospective study.
To evaluate surgery results and establish prognostic factors that predicted final functional (good or poor vision) and anatomic (final retinal detachment) outcome in open eye injury involving the posterior segment managed with pars plana vitrectomy. ⋯ Half of the eyes with a good final visual outcome in our study were successfully managed with pars plana vitrectomy for open eye injury after trauma. The classification system may become useful prognostic tool for visual outcome in posterior segment ocular injuries managed with vitrectomy. Relative afferent pupillary defect as a functional test is a good predictor for visual outcome.
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One of the many problems of academic medicine is its detachment from actual health problems of the population. Family medicine has a potential of bridging this gap. The paper describes the positive experience from introducing family medicine as a new academic discipline to the medical school in Slovenia. ⋯ Medical academic establishment has benefited by being exposed to new ideas in research and education. The key to success was the fact that the academic world accepted a newcomer to its midst and that the newcomer managed to integrate its principles into the rules of the academic environment. The next step in this process is to apply some of the positive experiences of the family medicine department to the curriculum reform of the entire faculty.
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To classify ocular lymphomas in patients treated at the Zagreb University Hospital Center according to the new classification of the World Health Organization (WHO) and to determine factors with prognostic significance. ⋯ Most ocular adnexal lymphomas usually have a B-cell immunophenotype, the morphologic and immunohistochemical features of extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, and a favorable prognosis. Our data suggest that CD43 could be useful to separate the group of patients with extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphomas with unfavorable prognosis from those that have a good prognosis. CD43 positive ocular lymphomas are associated with a higher rate of subsequent distant recurrence and the rate of lymphoma-related death.
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Academic medicine consists of three vocations: clinical care, research, and teaching. Many argue that academic medicine is undergoing a crisis. ⋯ The debate is to examine "the fundamental nature of academic medicine." The present editorial seeks to explore one problematic feature of academic medicine: the fact that it consists of three vocations. This problematic feature is fundamental to academic medicine.