The use of intraoperative mitomycin C during deep sclerectomy significantly reduced the postoperative IOP and increased the success rate of the procedure.

Actinomyces canaliculitis presents with epiphora, chronic purulent conjunctivitis, a palpably thickened canaliculus, and yellow punctual discharge. In suspect cases canuliculotomy and curettage should be performed, although canalicular reconstruction is generally unnecessary. Culture of discharge and concretions using PD Plus/F blood culture medium gave improved results over accepted norms. Fixation of smeared concretions on a slide in alcohol is simple and is diagnostic of the disease. We recommend long-term systemic penicillin treatment in Actinomyces canaliculitis.

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This study concerns the production of Hydrogen and Methane from a Food Residue Biomass (FORBI) product, generated from pre-sorted fermentable household waste in a (CSTR) and in a Periodic Anaerobic Baffled Reactor (PABR) respectively. FORBI is generated by drying and shredding the fermentable fraction of household food waste collected door-to-door in the Municipality of Halandri, Greece. Hydrogen production from FORBI through anaerobic fermentation under acidogenic mesophilic conditions was carried out using a 4L CSTR, operated at 12 hrs HRT with an organic loading of 15 g TS/L. Volatile fatty acids, TSS, VSS, COD, dCOD, total and dissolved carbohydrates, pH and hydrogen content were evaluated. The H2-CSTR was operated for 40 days. During the operation of H2-CSTR the production of biogas reached up to 0.1026Lbiogas/gFORBI and the percentage of hydrogen in the gas up to 48.2 %. The conversion of FORBI into methane was carried out through the operation of a 77L PABR operated under mesophilic methanogenic conditions at 10 days HRT and an organic loading of 10 g tCOD/L. TSS, VSS, COD, dissolved COD, pH, VFAs and methane were measured. The mean biogas production rate was 0.158Lbiogas/gFORBI and the mean methane percentage in the biogas was 70.34%.

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