Methylprednisolone therapy for retinal laser injury.

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：:A 34-year-old man with AIDS was admitted to the hospital with a one-week history of cough, chest pain, and fever. Radiography revealed a cavitating left upper lobe lesion. Two weeks later he developed a headache associated with a contrast enhancing lesion in the right parietal lobe. The patient had a progressive downh...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Hedges TR 3rd

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The painting Rubens Peale with a Geranium (1801), by Rembrandt Peale, has earned a reputation as a masterpiece of early American portraiture. In recent years the painting has also been the source of controversy, because Rubens was depicted with two pairs of eyeglasses at a time when most people would not have been por...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Follensbee BJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technologic improvements in cataract surgery have not only improved visual outcomes, but also have minimized intraoperative and postoperative pain. We review the mechanisms, risk factors, and management of intraoperative and postoperative pain. Summaries of less common sources of physiologic pain have been included to...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Assam JH,Bernhisel A,Lin A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:A 63-year-old man developed bilateral conjunctival injection and irritation followed by periocular discomfort and diplopia. Within weeks left proptosis and intermittent fever were noted. Orbital CT scan showed bilateral nodular enlargement of multiple extraocular muscles. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the extraocul...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Slamovits TL,Burde RM

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：:Ocular hypertension (intraocular pressure greater than or equal to 21 mm Hg, normal visual fields, normal optic discs, open angles, and the absence of any contributing ocular disease) occurs in 4-10% of the population over age 40. The question of whether to treat ocular hypertensive patients remains controversial. The...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Kass MA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is an autosomally inherited disorder that is associated with the accumulation of mineralized and fragmented elastic fibers in the skin, Bruch's membrane in the retina, and vessel walls. The ophthalmic and dermatologic expression of pseudoxanthoma elasticum and its vascular complications are he...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Hu X,Plomp AS,van Soest S,Wijnholds J,de Jong PT,Bergen AA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

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 presence of retinal vasculopathy in the absence of typical predisposing factors should suggest a possible underlying hematologic abnormality. In such cases, a systemic investigation may reveal a potentially fatal hypercoagulability or hyperviscosity syndrome. Retinal vein occlusion is the most commonly encountered...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Rajagopal R,Apte RS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucomatous optic neuropathy implies loss of retinal ganglion cells, including their axons, and a major tissue remodeling, especially in the optic nerve head. Although increased intraocular pressure is a major risk factor for glaucomatous optic neuropathy, there is little doubt that other factors such as ocular blood...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Mozaffarieh M,Grieshaber MC,Orgül S,Flammer J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonocular manifestations of parenteral drug abuse are presented to familiarize the ophthalmologist with this ever growing, medical and psychosocial problem. The ophthalmologist, like other primary care physicians, may be the first professional to encounter these patients whose substance abuse may lead to a wider s...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Michelson JB,Robin HS,Nozik RA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of current concepts for a visual prosthesis are based on neuronal electrical stimulation at different locations along the visual pathways within the central nervous system. The different designs of visual prostheses are named according to their locations (i.e., cortical, optic nerve, subretinal, and epiretinal). ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Margalit E,Maia M,Weiland JD,Greenberg RJ,Fujii GY,Torres G,Piyathaisere DV,O'Hearn TM,Liu W,Lazzi G,Dagnelie G,Scribner DA,de Juan E Jr,Humayun MS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness, is usually first managed medically, with incisional surgery as a second step. Noninvasive glaucoma procedures attempt to fill the gap between medical and surgical treatments and may work synergistically with them. High-intensity focused ultrasound induces a selective a...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Posarelli C,Covello G,Bendinelli A,Fogagnolo P,Nardi M,Figus M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a new, noninvasive imaging technique that generates real-time volumetric data on chorioretinal vasculature and its flow pattern. With the advent of high-speed optical coherence tomography, established enface chorioretinal segmentation, and efficient algorithms, OCTA g...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Sambhav K,Grover S,Chalam KV

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that postoperatively radiographic examinations be limited to the area of pathology. The patient presented here complained of visual difficulties two years after transphenoidal removal of a pituitary prolactinoma. His endocrinologist ordered what he believed to be the appropriate computed tomog...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Mindel JS,Fetell MR

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with left eye positional transient visual obscurations, diplopia, a left afferent pupillary defect, and optic disk edema-all occurring during pregnancy. Noncontrast magnetic resonance imaging revealed an orbital mass encasing the optic nerve and extending through the superior orbital fissure into t...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Mokhtarzadeh A,Maltry A,McClelland C

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A new case of AIDS-associated, small noncleaved cell (Burkitt's) lymphoma that presented as an orbital mass is described. Extraocular muscle involvement was documented by computed tomography and confirmed by orbital biopsy. Extensive abdominal involvement was subsequently diagnosed and this caused the patient's death ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Reifler DM,Warzynski MJ,Blount WR,Graham DM,Mills KA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with interstitial deletion of chromosome 17, right optic nerve hypoplasia, and impaired speech had bilateral congenital optic disc pigmentation, giving the appearance of gray optic discs. This appearance did not change over a period of two-and-a-half years. Previous cases of gray optic discs in neonates have b...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Brodsky MC,Buckley EG,McConkie-Rosell A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large population-based health administrative databases, clinical registries, and data linkage systems are a rapidly expanding resource for health research. Ophthalmic research has benefited from the use of these databases in expanding the breadth of knowledge in areas such as disease surveillance, disease etiology, he...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Clark A,Ng JQ,Morlet N,Semmens JB

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamatergic excitotoxicity has been implicated as a mechanism for injury in a variety of central nervous system pathologies, including glaucoma. Memantine, an NMDA-type glutamatergic open-channel blocker, has pharmacologic properties that make its efficacy greater under excitotoxic conditions, but lesser under norma...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Hare W,WoldeMussie E,Lai R,Ton H,Ruiz G,Feldmann B,Wijono M,Chun T,Wheeler L

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need of blood flow to different organs varies rapidly over time which is why there is sophisticated local regulation of blood flow. The term dysregulation simply means that blood flow is not properly adapted to this need. Dysregulative mechanisms can lead to an over- or underperfusion. A steady overperfusion may b...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Grieshaber MC,Mozaffarieh M,Flammer J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:India, the second most populous country in the world, is home to 23.5% of the world's blind population. In 1976 India became the first country in the world to start a national program for control of blindness. All surveys in the country have shown that cataract is the most common cause of blindness and all prevention ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Thomas R,Paul P,Rao GN,Muliyil JP,Mathai A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old male presented with bilateral sclerokeratitis. He reported recent bronchitis, sinusitis, dyspnea on exertion, hemoptysis, arthralgias and myalgias. Wegener's granulomatosis was diagnosed by a positive antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA) test and a nasal and subglotic biopsy showing granulomato...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Florine CW,Dwyer M,Holland EJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lasers have become an indispensable tool in management of many ocular disorders. This review describes the principles of lasers and the effects various laser modalities and wavelength modalities can produce on ocular structure. Guidelines are provided for appropriate selection of various wavelengths and prevention of ...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Peyman GA,Raichand M,Zeimer RC

更新日期：1984-03-01 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

abstract：:Despite the improving results that have been noted with penetrating keratoplasty, graft failure remains a significant problem. The causes of graft failure are quite varied. Primary donor failure, surgical complications, intraocular lens complications, persistent epithelial defects, allograft rejection, infection, glau...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Wilson SE,Kaufman HE

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of average net pulsatile ocular blood flow form measurements of the intraocular pressure (IOP) pulse is based upon 1) an accurate measurement of IOP and its time variation; 2) a knowledge of the relation between the volume of the living eye and its IOP; 3) a physical model for the flow of blood throu...

journal_title：Survey of ophthalmology

authors： Silver DM,Farrell RA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00