The Clinical and Pathogenic Spectrum of Surgically-Induced Scleral Necrosis. A Review.

abstract：:With an occurrence of approximately 1 in 3000 births, von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF) is one of the most common inherited human disorders. NF is considered a neurocristopathy, a disorder of neural crest derived cells. One of the complications of NF is the development of neural crest derived malignancies such...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： To KW,Rabinowitz SM,Friedman AH,Merker C,Cavanaugh CP

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium influences local vascular tone by releasing endothelium-derived relaxing factors such as nitric oxide, prostacyclin and a putative hyperpolarizing factor. In isolated ophthalmic arteries and the perfused eye, all endothelial factors importantly contribute to vascular regulation. In larger ophthalmic ve...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Haefliger IO,Meyer P,Flammer J,Lüscher TF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:William Ellergy Briggs was California's preeminent ophthalmologist for more than fifty years. A student of Ernst Fuchs, he was a clinician, scholar, and innovator who transplanted the best of European ophthalmology to the Western United States. ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Mannis MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful, non-invasive technique for mapping human brain function. Because of the robust signal intensity changes associated with visual stimuli, fMRI is particularly useful for studying visual cortex (including both striate and extrastriate cortex). Also, activation o...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Miki A,Haselgrove JC,Liu GT

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum toxin has become the initial treatment of choice for the management of essential blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm and other craniocervical dystonias. Numerous studies have confirmed a 90% to 95% response rate. Although a number of common side effects have been reported, the occurrence and incidence of rare lo...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Dutton JJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Once we understand that an increase in the size of the optic disk cup is due to loss of optic nerve fibers combined with some physical tissue rearrangements, it is quite clear that cupping begins as soon as nerve loss begins. Methods to detect cupping are more sensitive to the earliest glaucoma damage than are present...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Quigley HA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typical optic neuritis is an idiopathic demyelinating condition that is often associated with multiple sclerosis. This has been well characterized and has an excellent prognosis. Atypical optic neuritis can result from an inflammatory, infectious, or autoimmune disorder. Differentiating the two types of optic neuritis...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Abel A,McClelland C,Lee MS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus is the most common infectious conjunctivitis. Adenoviruses are highly contagious pathogens. The modes of transmission are mainly through hand to eye contact, ocular secretions, respiratory droplets, and contact with ophthalmic care providers and their medical instruments. The ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Jhanji V,Chan TC,Li EY,Agarwal K,Vajpayee RB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is one of the main mechanisms of lens opacification, and certain nutritional antioxidants are suspected to have a protective effect. To examine the role of these nutritional antioxidants on cataract prevention, we searched major databases and reviewed current evidence regarding the protective effect o...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Sideri O,Tsaousis KT,Li HJ,Viskadouraki M,Tsinopoulos IT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders in which there is progressive loss of photoreceptor and pigment epithelial function. The prevalence of retinitis pigmentosa is between 1/3000 and 1/5000 making it one of the most common causes of visual impairment in all a...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Pagon RA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital corneal anesthesia is a rare clinical entity that poses a diagnostic dilemma, particularly in the pediatric age group. The sensory deficit may be confined to the cornea, or extend to other divisions of the trigeminal nerve. The sensory deficit may occur as an isolated abnormality, as part of a complex neuro...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Ramaesh K,Stokes J,Henry E,Dutton GN,Dhillon B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical syndrome of divergence paralysis has been described since the mid 19th century. Speculation still surrounds the possible existence of an anatomical center for divergence function. Our report explores this possibility and describes the magnetic resonance images of a patient with a unilateral 6th nerve pals...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Stern RM,Tomsak RL

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide with increasing prevalence owing to increased life expectancy. Intravitreal injections of antivascular endothelial growth factor agents are commonly used in exudative AMD and oral antioxidant medication for nonexudative AMD; how...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Paez-Escamilla M,Jhingan M,Gallagher DS,Singh SR,Fraser-Bell S,Chhablani J

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is a complex biologic process that occurs normally in development and in turnover and remodeling of mature vascular networks. Pathological angiogenesis and neovascularization occur in association with retinal and ocular ischemic diseases, in retinopathy of prematurity and other developmental disorders, an...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Gariano RF,Kalina RE,Hendrickson AE

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral disk swelling and marked peripapillary and macular exudates were found on routine ophthalmologic examination in a 12 1/2-year-old girl. Eleven months later, with persistent findings, her blood pressure was found to be extremely elevated. She had an Ask-Upmark kidney, a rare form of segmental renal hypoplasia...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Leavitt JA,Pruthi S,Morgenstern BZ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old woman developed red painful eyes, diarrhea, and painful oral and genital ulcerations. Optic disk swelling was noted bilaterally. Colonoscopy was significant for granulomatous lesions consistent with Crohn disease. Epidemiologic factors, diagnostic criteria, and differentiating characteristics for Behcet ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Lee JJ,Beebout S,Lee AG,Tuetken R,Weinberg DA

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing the cause of itching, red eyelids is often difficult. Pruritic, inflamed eyelids can reflect various etiologies and are a common clinical presentation to the office of a dermatologist or ophthalmologist. In this article, five of the more common causes of eyelid dermatitis (atopic dermatitis, contact der...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Zug KA,Palay DA,Rock B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in immunology, particularly ocular immunology, have been accompanied by the emergence of safer, more specific immunosuppressive drugs, notably, cyclophosphamide, chlorambucil, methotrexate, azathioprine, cyclosporine A, bromocriptine, dapsone, and colchicine. These drugs have become an important, and often es...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Hemady R,Tauber J,Foster CS

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few records detailing the techniques and tribulations of early American surgeons who dared venture into the treacherous recess of the human orbit. The authors present a recently discovered letter written by a young woman who in 1841 underwent an orbital operation performed by the prominent New York City surg...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Khan JA,Albert DM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible applications of biofeedback to the treatment of ophthalmologic disorders is reviewed. Studies have suggested utility in the management of blepharospasms, strabismus, nystagmus, and other eye movement disorders as well as the training of voluntary control of accommodation. Limitations of the current litera...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Rotberg MH

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suprachoroidal hemorrhage is a feared complication of all types of intraocular surgery. Although rare, it is typically associated with severe visual disability, and this has prompted efforts to better understand the pathogenesis of this condition, to identify the patients at risk for this event, and to improve treatme...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Chu TG,Green RL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its inception in the late 1990s, corneal cross-linking has grown from an interesting concept to a primary treatment for corneal ectatic disease worldwide. Using a combination of ultraviolet-A light and a chromophore (vitamin B2, riboflavin), the cornea can be stiffened, usually with a single application, and pro...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Randleman JB,Khandelwal SS,Hafezi F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sixteen-year-old black male with congenital alacrima and deficient salivary secretion demonstrated evidence of keratoconjunctivitis sicca. The workup revealed elevated immunoglobulins and histologically normal lacrimal and salivary glands, but there was deposition of amyloid in the conjunctival stroma. The different...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Davidoff E,Friedman AH

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal eye movements in the infant or voting child can be congenital or acquired. They may be a result of abnormal early visual development or a sign of underlying neurologic or neuromuscular disease. It is important to be able to detect these abnormalities and to distinguish them from normal but immature eye moveme...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Cassidy L,Taylor D,Harris C

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoblastoma usually presents in children younger than 5 years. To our knowledge, 20 cases of retinoblastoma in adults (older than 20 years) have been reported in the literature. Of 173 patients with histopathologically proven retinoblastoma seen in our institute, three were adults. All the patients had endophytic t...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Biswas J,Mani B,Shanmugam MP,Patwardhan D,Kumar KS,Badrinath SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) involves a progressive impairment of the outer layers in the center of the retina. Experimental studies have demonstrated that bright light preferentially damages precisely the region that degenerates in AMD. The evidence that solar radiation is responsible for some of the deteri...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Young RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benjamin Franklin, who died 200 years ago, is generally credited with the invention of bifocals. However, serious historians have from time to time produced evidence to suggest that others may have preceded him in the invention. This historical article includes correspondence from George Whatley, a London philanthropi...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Letocha CE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophthalmitis is a serious complication of cataract surgery that occurs in thousands of patients each year. To decrease the incidence of postoperative endophthalmitis, many surgeons inject intracameral antibiotics (cefuroxime, moxifloxacin, and vancomycin) routinely at the end of surgery. A large number of recently ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Grzybowski A,Brona P,Zeman L,Stewart MW

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wavefront sensors and scanning laser technology are enabling the correction of the aberrations of the eye. The effects of aberrations on visual performance are reviewed, and the theoretical limit of visual performance is predicted to understand the ultimate endpoint of these new technologies. A schematic eye model tha...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Schwiegerling J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unknown to the Western hemisphere, a Polish scientist, naturalist, anatomist, physiologist, philosopher and optician, Witelo, wrote an important ten volume manuscript, Peri-Optikes, usually cited in the literature as Perspectiva. This classic textbook was first published in 1535 in Nuremberg under the title: Vitellion...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Fryczkowski AW,Bieganowski L,Nye CN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00