Decreased Perifoveal Sensitivity Detected by Microperimetry in Patients Using Hydroxychloroquine and without Visual Field and Fundoscopic Anomalies

Purpose. To evaluate the usefulness of microperimetry in the early detection of the ocular anomalies associated with the use of hydroxychloroquine. Methods. Prospective comparative case series study comprising 14 healthy eyes of 7 patients (group A) and 14 eyes of 7 patients under treatment with hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of rheumatologic diseases and without fundoscopic or perimetric anomalies (group B). A comprehensive ophthalmological examination including microperimetry (MP) and spectraldomain optical coherence tomography was performed in both groups. Results. No significant differences were found in mean MP foveal sensitivity between groups (P = 0.18). However, mean MP overall sensitivity was significantly higher in group A (29.05 ± 0.57 dB versus group B, 26.05 ± 2.75 dB; P < 0.001). Significantly higher sensitivity values were obtained in group A in comparison to group B for the three eccentric loci evaluated (P < 0.001). Conclusion. Microperimetry seems to be a useful tool for the early detection of retinal damage in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine.

EU Social Policy: Developments in the field and insights for the study of social policy. ACES Cases No. 2012.1

This paper focuses on the key features of EU social policy and the way it has been interpreted and seeks to identify new directions for study. EU social policy is considered along two main dimensions: its content and hallmark features and the main approaches to conceptualizing and theorizing it. Rather than the classic negative depiction of EU social policy, this piece suggests that it is more significant than usually allowed, not least because the empirical and theoretical lenses which have been applied to it were developed for other purposes. The implication is that developments in EU social policy are often overlooked, not least in how the EU has carved out a role for itself by constantly framing and reframing discourses relevant to social policy and social problems in an attempt to both influence how social actors at all levels of governance approach policy and secure their acceptance of its role in social policy. Therefore analyzing EU social policy outside of the traditional frames reveals interesting and significant developments especially around innovation in social policy and the attempt to legitimate the EU as a social policy actor.

Adapting woody species and planting techniques to landfill conditions : field and laboratory investigations /

Mode of access: Internet.

Listerellosis in domestic animals : a technical discussion of field and laboratory investigations /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Australian agriculturist and guide for land occupation ... with directions for field and garden work, from January to December /

"New Issue."

Field and station video operation. A special study.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Flowers of the field and forest. From original water-color drawings. after nature,

Mode of access: Internet.

Salmon and trout angling: its theory, and practice on southern stream, torrent river, and mountain loch,

Mode of access: Internet.

The pictorial history of the great Civil War : its causes, origin, conduct and results : embracing full and authentic accounts of its battles by land and sea, with graphic descriptions of heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, narratives of personal adventure, thrilling incidents, daring exploits, wonderful escapes, life in camp, field, and hospital, adventures at sea, blockade life, etc., etc. : containing carefully prepared biographies of the leading generals and naval commanders of both the North and the South /

In double columns.

Poisonous plants in field and garden /

Mode of access: Internet.

A study of hail production in a supercell storm using a doppler derived wind field and a numerical hail growth model /

Mode of access: Internet.

Braddock's field, and other original poems.

Mode of access: Internet.

More ballads of field and billet, and other verses.

Mode of access: Internet.

Stories of lake, field and forest. Rambles of a sportsman-naturalist. With ten half-tone engravings.

Grouse shooting extraordinary.--Fly-fishing for white perch.--Goose shooting.--Perch fishing.--A tale of Winnepesaukee.--Horn pout fishing.--The fox we did not get.--Insect hunting in winter.--Lake trout fishing.--The naturalist in the White Mountains.

The illustrated strawberry culturist : containing the history, sexuality, field and garden culture of strawberries, forcing or pot culture, how to grow from seed, hybridizing, and all other information neccessary to enable everybody to raise their own strawberries, together with a description of new varieties and a list of the best of the old sorts -- /

Includes index.