Oculogenital disease.

abstract：PURPOSE:The angiostatic cortisene anecortave acetate was evaluated in three safety and efficacy studies of patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to exudative age-related macular degeneration. METHODS:The Anecortave Acetate Monotherapy Trial enrolled 128 patients randomized to anecortave acetat...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Russell SR,Hudson HL,Jerdan JA,Anecortave Acetate Clinical Study Group.

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic macular lesions frequently contribute to impaired visual acuity in hereditary retinal dystrophies. Their pathogenesis varies and is not entirely understood. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors have proven to be potentially efficacious, although not in all cases. We discuss the various factors and mechanisms implicate...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Salvatore S,Fishman GA,Genead MA

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:The court decisions included in this article reflect judicial attitudes towards medicolegal cases in most states. The courts have defined and amplified issues of informed consent, the physician's duty to warn patients and protect third parties, the limitations of the "Good Samaritan" statute, the responsibility of the...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Bettman JW,Tennenhouse DJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors, which are formulated as ophthalmic eyedrop preparations, have recently become commercially available for use by ophthalmologists in the United States to inhibit intraoperative miosis during cataract surgery and to prevent postoperative inflammation. In addition, they are available worldwide...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Flach AJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy eye syndrome is an important type of myopia-induced strabismus. We provide an overview of heavy eye syndrome, from its history to its most salient features. The theory of the orbital and rectus muscle pulley system as it relates to heavy eye syndrome and the prevailing theories on the pathophysiology of heavy ey...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Hennein L,Robbins SL

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit is a rare spindle cell neoplasm. There are 42 cases of solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit available in the literature. We present six more cases of orbital solitary fibrous tumors, which presented to our institute between 1999 and 2001. We highlight the need for clinical recognitio...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Krishnakumar S,Subramanian N,Mohan ER,Mahesh L,Biswas J,Rao NA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With improving surgical technique and equipment, the acceptable age for placing an intraocular lens in infants and children is becoming younger. The tools for predicting intraocular lens power have not necessarily kept up, as current theoretical and regression intraocular lens power prediction formulas are largely bas...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Eibschitz-Tsimhoni M,Archer SM,Del Monte MA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leiomyoma of the ciliary body is a rare tumor that often causes a diagnostic dilemma. Sclerouvectomy has been found to be beneficial in the management of iris and ciliary body leiomyoma. We treated a case of leiomyoma of the ciliary body presenting as a fleshy mass in the anterior chamber, removed by partial lamellar ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Biswas J,Kumar SK,Gopal L,Bhende MP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten cases of naturally occurring dendritic keratitis (feline herpes keratitis), which are manifestations of the disease commonly known as feline viral rhinotracheitis, have been identified in domestic cats in San Fancisco. Neonatal, juvenile, and adult forms of the disease are described and their treatment is discusse...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Bodle JE

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical/cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is the most frequent cause of pediatric visual impairment in developed countries and is increasing in prevalence in developing nations. The most common underlying etiology is hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, particularly in premature children. Other causes include seizures, hy...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Chang MY,Borchert MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old woman presented with bilateral optic neuropathy, leg weakness, and urinary symptoms. Despite her spinal MR being normal, her serum was positive for NMO-IgG. This indicated that she likely had Devic disease. ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Gilbert ME,Vaphiades M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a form of inherited night blindness. Over decades, various dubious treatment strategies that lacked sufficient theoretically sound underpinnings were explored. Initially they were enthusiastically promoted and subsequently discredited. It is apparent that many were predicated on the errone...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Fishman GA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of a 16-year-old anticoagulated, immunocompromised male presenting with a blind, proptotic left eye, total ophthalmoplegia, and central retinal artery occlusion. Ophthalmic examination revealed other features of the orbital apex syndrome. Mucormycosis misdiagnosed as a traumatic orbital hemorrhage ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Bray WH,Giangiacomo J,Ide CH

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:A 55-year-old man with a history of mantle cell lymphoma reported acute blurred vision in the right eye. Although initially diagnosed with acute retrobulbar optic neuritis, 3 weeks later retinal infiltrates and vitritis developed, but vitrectomy resulted negative for vitreoretinal lymphoma. Further investigation revea...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： De Simone L,Pellegrini F,Cirone D,Cimino L,Falardeau J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two short visual field tests were performed on 106 subjects approximately 5 minutes apart with or without a hand vibration stimulus between the field tests. There were 31 eyes in the control group (10 without glaucoma, eight glaucoma suspects, 10 with primary open-angle glaucoma, and three with secondary open-angle gl...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Chai E,Goldberg I,Chia A,Chen J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication errors are a frequent cause of medical malpractice claims. Because serious injury often results, medication errors can be costly to defend, indemnify or settle. A review of five closed claims involving glucocorticoids, corticosteroids, antibiotics and silver nitrate offers insight into how ophthalmologists ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Brick DC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topically administered ophthalmic medications are capable of attaining clinically important serum concentrations, as evidenced by the variety of systemic side effects they can produce. These drugs are therefore also capable of interacting with other drugs administered orally and intravenously. This is especially impor...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Gerber SL,Cantor LB,Brater DC

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on their mechanism of action, the most frequently used ocular hypertensive agents, the beta-blockers, cannot be assumed to reduce IOP during sleep. The need for drugs that reduce IOP around-the-clock is underscored, however, by the fact that inadequate nocturnal ocular perfusion pressure is considered to be one ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Mishima HK,Kiuchi Y,Takamatsu M,Rácz P,Bito LZ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical considerations of intraocular lenses can be understood, using only the formulae and principles taught in a typical basic science course in ophthalmology. Some of the more common optical problems associated with intraocular lenses are presented and the methods for their solutions are illustrated and explain...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Miller D

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：: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：:A 71-year-old woman with a history of acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented with unilateral optic disc edema. Laboratory evaluations for infectious, inflammatory, and neoplastic etiologies were negative. Magnetic resonance imaging of the orbits with and without contrast demonstrated enhancement and thickening of the ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Birnbaum FA,Meekins LC,Srinivasan A,Murchison AP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In treating periocular basal cell carcinoma the goal is to achieve the most complete eradication of affected tissue while preserving as much healthy tissue as possible. In the first of these "Viewpoints" articles, Drs. Leshin and Yeatts discuss the success of Mohs' microsurgical technique (MMS) in both regards. Moreov...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Leshin B,Yeatts P,Anscher M,Montano G,Dutton JJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eye cancer-related glaucomas occur through a variety of mechanisms. They can be challenging to diagnose and are often refractory to treatment. The literature reveals the variety of ways eye cancers cause glaucoma. Mechanisms include direct invasion, infiltration, or seeding of the aqueous outflow structures as well as...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Radcliffe NM,Finger PT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disorders of the orbit can secondarily involve the eye. Although nonspecific, changes which can be noted on funduscopic examination including abnormalities of the retina, choroid, and optic nerve, can be secondary to an underlying orbital process. Awareness of these findings and their association with orbital disease ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： De La Paz MA,Boniuk M

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM) is a high-resolution ultrasound technique that allows noninvasive in vivo imaging of structural details of the anterior ocular segment at near light microscopic resolution and provides detailed assessment of anterior segment structures, including those obscured by normal anatomic and pat...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Dada T,Gadia R,Sharma A,Ichhpujani P,Bali SJ,Bhartiya S,Panda A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00