Topical anaesthesia: a risk factor for post-cataract-extraction endophthalmitis?
Topical anaesthesia techniques in temporal clear corneal cataract extraction may be a factor in endophthalmitis.
The association between depressive symptoms and atherosclerosis is explained by the somatic-affective symptom cluster of depression. Subclinical vascular disease thus may inflate depressive symptom scores and may explain why treatment of depression in cardiac patients hardly affects vascular outcome.