abstract：:Intraocular lenses have been regulated by the Bureau of Devices of the Food and Drug Administration since February 9, 1978. One year ago, data were reported through August 9, 1979, at which time more than 177,000 lenses of four different classes had been implanted. In the meantime, appeals and legal action by the Publ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Worthen DM,Boucher JA,Buxton J,Lowther G,Talbott M

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arteriohepatic dysplasia (AHD, Alagille's syndrome) is presumed to be one of the six known familial intrahepatic cholestatic syndromes, all of which present with neonatal jaundice or failure to thrive, or both. Accurate early diagnosis of the proper syndrome is important, as arteriohepatic dysplasia has a good prognos...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Puklin JE,Riely CA,Simon RM,Cotlier E

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of acute angle closure glaucoma with different types of ocular vascular accidents are presented: one case of optic nerve head ischemia; two cases of central retinal vein occlusion, and one case of vitreous hemorrhage. One of the patients had vitreous hemorrhage following the lowering of intraocular pressure...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Sonty S,Schwartz B

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eyes undergoing routine intracapsular cataract extraction (without alpha-chymotrypsin) often experience marked ocular hypertension in the first six hours after surgery. We conducted a randomized, prospective, double-blind study to determine if timolol maleate would prevent this increase in pressure. Thirty-five eyes u...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Haimann MH,Phelps CD

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An integrated ophthalmic office computer system is now functional at five sites. The system automates clerical functions such as appointment scheduling, billing, and preparation of doctors' schedules and insurance forms. It eliminates the need for filing and storage of records. The medical system records the history a...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Carmichael PL,Schwartz LW,Carmichael PL Jr,Connor RW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite advances in microsurgical techniques, astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty is still a perplexing problem. In this paper, using retrospective studies, experiments, and observations, the factors that seem most significant in creating excessive postoperative astigmatism are delineated. The difficulty of cre...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Perlman EM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight patients with keratitis sicca were enrolled in a long-term study to test the effectiveness of slow-release artificial tears (SRAT). The average follow up period of 39 weeks, with a range of 9 to 136 weeks. Forty-six (79%) are still being followed. Almost all of these patients have had marked relief from th...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Werblin TP,Rheinstrom SD,Kaufman HE

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light, fluorescent, and scanning and transmission electron microscopic examinations of two postmortem eyes from a 24-year-old man with well-documented fundus flavimaculatus with atrophic macular degeneration revealed striking abnormalities in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Beginning near the equator, scanning e...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Eagle RC Jr,Lucier AC,Bernardino VB Jr,Yanoff M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enophthalmos with an associated superior sulcus syndrome is a common finding in the anophthalmic socket. Two common causes are: (1) progressive relaxation of the lower eyelid leading to downward migration of the prosthesis and associated ectropion formation; and (2) decreased volume of the orbit. Relaxation of the low...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Paris GL,Spohn WG

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylephrine hydrochloride is a potent, effective, relatively safe drug with few ocular side effects. Side effects from topical instillation are uncommon but include severe systemic cardiovascular effects with elevated blood pressure and stroke. Ten percent phenylephrine should be used with caution in patients with k...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Meyer SM,Fraunfelder FT

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old white man presented with bilateral inferior lid tumors with a rubbery consistency suggesting lymphoid lesions. An excisional biopsy specimen of the larger lesion in the left lower lid led to routine pathologic, immunologic, histochemical, and electron microscopic investigations. The tumor displayed a dif...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Jakobiec FA,Gibralter RA,Knowles DM 2nd,Iwamoto T

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corneal edema was found in 24 of 43 eyes with anterior segment complications of intraocular lenses. Keratoplasty was performed in 20 eyes. Three eyes required other surgical therapy for edema while medical treatment of edema was done in one case. Thirty-two lenses were removed because of pain, inflammation, bleeding o...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Polack FM

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the purpose of this study to determine whether age could be used to predict central endothelial cell count in preoperative cataract patients aged 40 to 90. Three separate series of cell counts on a total of almost 3,000 eyes were performed and analyzed regarding age relationship. Although statistically endothel...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Hoffer KJ,Kraff MC

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical evaluations of the Autofield-I, CFA-120, and Fieldmaster Model 101-PR automated perimeters were performed in comparison with manual kinetic testing on the Goldmann perimeter. All the automated perimeters displayed similar high rates of detecting visual field defects, although their false-alarm (false-positive...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Johnson CA,Keltner JL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four consecutive patients with aphakic penetrating keratoplasty and penetrating keratoplasty combined with intracapsular cataract extraction were reviewed in a prospective fashion with a minimum of a one-year follow-up. Five were lost to follow-up. There were seven graft failures at the end of one year. Five of ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Olson RJ,Mattingly TP,Waltman SR,Kaufman HE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton irradiation was used in the treatment of uveal melanomas in 36 eyes. The average follow-up period was 16 months. One patient developed metastatic disease and died. No eye has been enucleated and tumor regression has been observed in all 22 eyes with a follow-up of more than 12 months. This type of treatment off...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Gragoudas ES,Goitein M,Verhey L,Munzenreider J,Suit HD,Koehler A

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two large studies from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) have listed the various lesions which may clinically resemble malignant melanomas of the posterior uvea (pseudomelanomas). The studies from the AFIP were based upon histologic examination of eyes which were enucleated. The present study reports on 4...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Shields JA,Augsburger JJ,Brown GC,Stephens RF

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred forty-seven reports of adverse reactions to timolol maleate received by the National Registry for Drug-induced Ocular Side Effects during an eleven-month period were reviewed. Approximately half the reports concerned systemic reactions affecting the cardiac, pulmonary, central nervous, gastrointestinal, a...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Van Buskirk EM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixty-two patients with presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome were evaluated. New macular scars not present on initial angiogram developed in 9% of eyes. The risk of developing a symptomatic macular lesion in eyes with asymptomatic macular scars was 23%. In eyes with peripapillary scarring, 3.8% deve...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Lewis ML,Van Newkirk MR,Gass JD

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic anterior chamber and vitreous aspiration confirmed an infectious etiology in 78 of 140 eyes (56%) with suspected endophthalmitis. In 27 eyes the vitreous aspirate was positive, while the anterior chamber aspirate was negative. Intraocular antibiotics were used in 88 eyes including 50 which underwent therape...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Forster RK,Abbott RL,Gelender H

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraocular lenses have been regulated by the Food and Drug Administration since February 9, 1978. Data reported through August 9, 1979 reveal 177,503 lenses of four different classes have been implanted. The anterior chamber intraocular lens appears to have a higher incidence of certain postoperative complications co...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Worthen DM,Boucher JA,Buxton JN,Hayreh SS,Lowther G,Reinecke RD,Spencer WH,Talbott M,Weeks DF

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors used in the treatment of glaucoma are rarely associated with blood dyscrasias. Several case reports of aplastic anemia with use of acetazolamide, and two cases with use of methazolamide, have appeared in the literature. This report documents two cases of aplastic anemia, at least one of w...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Werblin TP,Pollack IP,Liss RA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate a low-concentration, cycloplegic-mydriatic mixture of phenylephrine and tropicamide in a routine office examination. No clinically significant difference in pupillary dilation was found between the usual instillation of the standard, commercially available phenylephrine 10% and trop...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Forman AR

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing with the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer revealed a strong correlation between corneal sensitivity and retinal status in a group of diabetic patients. Eyes with normal fundi had normal corneal sensitivity. Those with background retinopathy had somewhat poliferative retinopathyl showed a greater loss of sensitivity...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Rogell GD

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marihuana inhalation was accompanied by increased heart rate and decreased intraocular and blood pressure in 18 subjects with heterogenous glaucomas. The hypotensive effects appeared in 60 to 90 minutes as the decrease in intraocular pressure (IOP) appeared to follow the decrease in blood pressure. In addition to any ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Merritt JC,Crawford WJ,Alexander PC,Anduze AL,Gelbart SS

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective clinicopathologic review of 105 cases of sympathetic ophthalmia showed histologic features of prognostic significance and evaluated the role of therapy. Classic descriptions omit retinal changes, but 58.0% of our cases had retinal detachment and 42.2% showed intraretinal inflammation. The optic nerve a...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Lubin JR,Albert DM,Weinstein M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idoxuridine (IDU) and adenine arabinoside (Ara-A) are less than ideal drugs for the treatment of herpes because of toxicity, only partial efficacy with initial dendritic ulcers, and insufficient antiviral activity to prevent occasional epithelial breakthrough. Trifluorothymidine (TFT), soon to be released by the FDA f...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Kaufman HE

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was undertaken to analyze the different causes of abnormal head postures on ocular bases. Eight basic mechanisms were found in a series of 188 patients. Incomitance accounted for 62.7% of the head postures and nystagmus for 20.2%. Important diagnostic criteria for evaluating patients with head post...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Kushner BJ

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired central disruption of fusional amplitude is characterized by a complete loss of fusional amplitude, the patient maintaining fusion for only a moment under test conditions before breaking to constant diplopia. Under normal viewing conditions, the patient has constant diplopia with both eyes open. Patients who ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Pratt-Johnson JA,Tillson G

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of phacoemulsification, much interest has again been rekindled in extracapsular cataract surgery and its effects on the vitreoretinopathies associated in high myopia. Since 1972, 278 patients with high myopia greater than --7.50 D, as as determined by axial length echography, have been operated on by t...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Praeger DL

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) is a proliferative retinopathy observed in premature infants. Its relationship to oxygen has led to both clinical and laboratory research into the potential benefits of the antioxidant tocopherol in this disorder. Although the clinical trials to date have only suggested a beneficial resul...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Phelps DL,Rosenbaum AL

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resection of the superior tarsal muscle (STM) is effective in correcting congenital or acquired blepharoptosis in patients who have satisfactory elevation of the eyelid with a preoperative phenylephrine eye drops test. Advantages of this procedure are that only the STM is resected, the conjunctiva and basic lacrimal s...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Dortzbach RK

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An entire family (father, mother, and three daughters) were given thiabendazole because one of the children had acquired pinworm infestation. The mother and one daughter (non-infected) developed a sicca complex (keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia) accompanied by cholangiostatic jaundice. Sjögren's syndrome is a...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Fink AI,MacKay CJ,Cutler SS

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of a fiberoptic endoscope to visualize the vault of the inferior turbinate during lacrimal duct probing and irrigation revealed a high incidence of false passages. This was confirmed on dacryocystofluoroscopy. The creation of false passages as documented by us can help explain clinical probing failure in apparentl...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Cibis GW,Jazbi BU

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons between automated suprathreshold static perimetry and manual kinetic perimetry were performed for 226 eyes with glaucoma or ocular hypertension, and 147 eyes with other optic nerve disease. Both techniques produced similar high detection rates for glaucomatous visual field defects, whereas suprathreshold s...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Johnson CA,Keltner JL,Balestrery FG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complications associated with rigid contact lenses are more frequent in aphakia. The limited dexterity of older patients not only may prove an insurmountable barrier to the mastery of daily contact lens insertion and removal, but also may produce significant direct eye trauma, its seriousness determined by the integri...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Ferris RL

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients seen in a one-year period with advanced malignant melanoma of the choroid in eyes with low visual acuity and clear media are reported. The low visual acuity appeared clinically to be antecedent to the malignant tumor; although in certain cases it may have been related to the occult melanoma, this was not...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Albert DM,Zakov ZN,Smith TR

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred twelve patients with vitiligo were examined for ocular abnormalities. Discrete areas of depigmentation with associated pigment hyperplasia clinically appearing to involve the choroid and retinal pigment epithelium were observed in 44 patients, and active uveitis was seen in nine patients. The changes obser...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Albert DM,Nordlund JJ,Lerner AB

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myopia is not a cause of serious disease, although the two are sometimes associated. In contrast to hyperopia, it is a symptom and is easily understood. Myopia can have social as well as physical effects. Myopic patients often fear that they have increased their refractive error by their own behavior. This belief is e...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Safir A

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the appropriate workup, the size, location, and consistency of an orbital mass will dictate the surgical approach chosen. Masses in the muscle cone area or in the temporal portion of the orbit are most easily approached by the lateral orbitotomy. For lacrimal gland tumors a superior extension of the lateral orbi...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Leone CR Jr

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00