abstract：:The authors' experience over the past five years in the cryosurgical management of retinal detachment in ten eyes of eight premature infants with retrolental fibroplasia, whose ages at the time of detachment surgery ranged from 2 1/2 months to 11 months with an average of 5 1/2 months, is reported. Postoperative follo...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： McPherson A,Hittner HM

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitreous surgery techniques are useful in the management of selected retinal detachments with an otherwise poor prognosis. Vitrectomy methods can be used to remove intraocular opacities; cut vitreous sheets causing vitreo-retinal traction and separate epiretinal membranes covering or distorting the retina; provide a f...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Michels RG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author has implanted 197 Fyodorov intraocular lenses. With careful selection of patients, good surgical judgment, and meticulous surgery, a degree of success can be obtained with this lens, which will equal that of conventional cataract surgery. The surgical technique of implantation will be described. ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Kwitko ML

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their size and mass, weight is a major concern in the fitting of soft gel lenses. Lenticular design is necessary, and there are essentially two lens designs for aphakia: the spin-cast lens of Bausch & Lomb and the lathe-cut lenses of the other manufacturers. A solution to the problem of weight in a single c...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Baldone JA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts have been made to develop noncorticosteroidal anti-inflammatory therapy. The goals of such therapy have been to eradicate the primary cause, prevent the initial tissue injury, moderate inflammatory response, and enhance tissue repair while minimizing and eliminating the undesirable aspects of the therapy. ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Leopold IH,Murray D

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nabilone is a synthesized crystalline benzopyran that resembles the cannabinols but is not a tetrahydrocannabinol. Oral administration of 0.5 to 2 mg to patients with open-angle glaucoma reduced the intraocular pressure from 10% to 54% with an average of 28%. Administration of a topical ophthalmic nabilone solution (0...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Newell FW,Stark P,Jay WM,Schanzlin DJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing suspicion that topical ocular miotic therapy in selected persons may precipitate retinal detachments. This is a rare event and probably does not occur in patients free of retinal pathology. Data supporting a possible cause and effect relationship, obtained from the National Registry of Drug-Induced...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Beasley H,Fraunfelder FT

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histochemical distribution of carbonic anhydrase activity in the ciliary processes is shown. There is a multiplicity of possible points of attack of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, We do not know which sites are critically inhibited at clinical dosage. One primary mechanism of the therapeutic action of miotics is c...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Bárány EH

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rotational ipsilateral penetrating autokeratoplasty is useful in the treatment of certain nonprogressive corneal scars. The procedure alleviates difficulties with the availability of donor tissue and with graft rejection. A method is presented for determining the maximum clear central corneal area that can be obtained...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Bourne WM,Brubaker RF

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods of testing for lacrimal drainage insufficiency and a modification of the Jones fluorescein dye tests are presented. Despite their excellence, Jones tests have never been widely employed because of difficulty in dye retrieval. The modification consists of instilling one drop of the dye three times at 15 second ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Hecht SD

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrasound diagnostic coding system was developed that permitted entry of diagnoses into a programmable calculator, thus permitting rapid information retrieval of patients with a specific diagnosis or diagnoses as well as the number of patients with a specific diagnosis. Cataract, vitreous opacity, trauma, choroida...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Frank KE,Purnell EW,Jennings WD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental dog model was used to reproduce the clinical picture of bilateral arteriole and choriocapillaris occlusion from a unilateral intracarotid injection of long-acting corticosteroids combined with other drugs including lidocaine, epinephrine, and penicillin. All five known long-acting corticosteroids, when...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Wilson RS,McGrew RN,White HJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slow-releasing artificial tear (SR-AT) is a soluble polymer in solid form. Placed in the inferior cul-de-sac and allowed to dissolve, it is used to treat dry-eye patients. The SR-AT was studied in two phases. The short-term cross-over study of 40 patients was completed in October 1976. The long-term open study is ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Lamberts DW,Langston DP,Chu W

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exposure of the levator aponeurosis during blepharoplasty allows the creation of a fixed, distinct lid crease and the opportunity for repair of any defect in the aponeurosis. The conventional blepharoplasty without deep fixation may show the scar separate from the crease and a tendency for early redundancy of skin...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Dryden RM,Leibsohn J

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a sampling of the psychophysical and electrophysiologic examinations which have been applied to determine the location of the visual processing defect in functional amblyopia. Areal summation and lateral inhibition are discussed along with methods for determining their extent at different locations...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Lawwill T

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bimedial rectus recession with measurement from the limbus was combined with conjuctival recession 85 children undergoing surgery for esotropia. Using this augmented recession technique, the prism diopters of correction per millimeter of surgery done were 4.8 compared with 3.2 found in 56 control patients. Postoperati...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Helveston EM,Ellis FD,Patterson JH,Weber J

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dansyl chloride technique in conjunction with thin layer chromatography and autoradiography has shown that dipivalyl epinephrine is a pro-drug in the human eye. Dipivalyl epinephrine appears to be a more effective epinephrine compound, in that it penetrates the cornea approximately 17 times greater than epinephrin...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Mandell AI,Stentz F,Kitabchi AE

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of 200 consecutive pars plana vitrectomies shows delayed corneal epithelial healing after intentional scraping and formation of a posterior subcapsular cataract, presumably due to exposure to inadequate infusion fluids. Posterior retinal holes occur frequently, whereas entrance site complications have been ...

journal_title：Ophthalmology

authors： Faulborn J,Conway BP,Machemer R

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00