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Choline levels, the regulation of acetylcholine and phosphatidylcholine synthesis, and Alzheimer’s disease
Optic Nerve Sheath Fenestration in Cancer Patients: Indications and Surgical Technique
Optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF) entails cutting a window or making linear fenestrations in the retrobulbar optic nerve sheath, which releases pressure and often allows stabilization or improvement of vision. Indications for ONSF include visual loss due to pseudotumor cerebri, optic nerve sheath hemorrhage, dural sinus thrombosis, subdural hematoma, intradural arteriovenous malformation, arachnoiditis with increased intracranial pressure, and cryptococcal meningitis with papilledema due to AIDS. Indications for ONSF in cancer patients are not well established, but a few case reports have shown success of ONSF in patients with perineural metastasis of breast cancer, increased intracranial pressure with papilledema due to a brain tumor, lymphomatous infiltration of the optic nerve, and optic nerve sheath meningioma. ONSF can be performed with a medial orbitotomy approach with disinsertion of the medial rectus muscle, a superomedial eyelid crease incision without extraocular muscle disinsertion, a lateral orbitotomy approach with bone removal, or a lateral canthotomy incision without bone removal. ONSF is considered relatively safe when performed carefully; serious complications occur in about 1% of patients
‘Italian Renaissance Love Theory and the General Scholar in the Seventeenth Century’.
In his Traité de l’esprit de l’homme , Louis de La Forge argues that everything
that can be observed in a living body can be explained without resorting to any
form of knowledge. La Forge’s target, never explicitly mentioned, is Marin Cureau
de La Chambre, who in his work as a whole had developed the thesis that animals
act through the presence of a form of knowledge that is different from that of the
intellect and that can be attributed to the body. In claiming the necessity of a form
of knowledge in organic events, Cureau was answering to a problem raised by
Campanella in his De sensu rerum . La Forge’s contention that no knowledge is
required to explain nature is addressed against the permanence of Renaissance vitalism
in the name of the original inspiration of Cartesian new science.Cureau de La Chambr