abstract：:Retinoic acid 0.1% in arachis oil was applied to one eye and arachis oil alone to the other eye, of each of 19 patients with equivalent degrees of corneal xerophthalmia in the fellow eyes. Even with concomitant systemic vitamin A therapy, topical retinoic acid was associated with more rapid healing of corneal lesions ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sommer A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The noninvasive laser Doppler technique was used to study retinal circulatory characteristics in five patients who underwent uncomplicated scleral buckling procedures. In each patient, the systolic/diastolic variation of the red blood cell speed in the retinal arteries (flow pulsatility ratio) was lower in the eye tha...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Yoshida A,Feke GT,Green GJ,Goger DG,Matsuhashi M,Jalkh AE,McMeel JW

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the surgical results for 197 eyes that underwent vitrectomy for diabetic traction detachment of the macula. The retina was successfully reattached in 130 of the 197 cases (66%), although the final level of vision depended on the amount of permanent macular damage from the previous detachment and on the eff...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rice TA,Michels RG,Rice EF

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of six patients (four women and two men ranging in age from 51 to 90 years) with bilateral senile iridoschisis also had secondary unilateral narrow angle or angle-closure glaucoma. All six patients had splitting of the iris stroma inferiorly. Histopathologic studies disclosed marked iris stromal atrophy without ev...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rodrigues MC,Spaeth GL,Krachmer JH,Laibson PR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-aminopropionitrile, an inhibitor of collagen cross-linking, effectively limited the degree of posttraumatic vitreous proliferation in rabbits three weeks after double perforating injury. Light microscopic examination of the sites of perforating injury after five weeks showed minimal intravitreal fibrous prolifera...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Moorhead LC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 30 consecutive patients with ocular adnexal basal cell carcinoma, 18 (60%) had at least one additional unsuspected foci of basal cell carcinoma. The patients most likely to have additional basal cell skin cancer were women, those with previous basal cell carcinoma, and those whose eyelid lesions were recurrent, loc...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Wesley RE,Collins JW

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid was identified by light and electron microscopy within corneal grafts of two male siblings from a family with lattice corneal dystrophy type 1. These deposits indicate a recurrent disease within the donor tissue, and we believe this reflects an infiltration of the grafts by genetically abnormal host corneal fi...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Klintworth GK,Ferry AP,Sugar A,Reed J

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-five patients less than 10 years of age had cataract surgery on 99 eyes. The visual prognosis depended on the cataract type and whether the treatment was undertaken during the critical period for development of the fixation reflex. All patients received the same surgical technique, aggressive optical correction,...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Parks MM

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign lateral rectus palsy developed in two adults, a 62-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman. Both were hospitalized because of headache and diplopia. Extensive laboratory and neurologic testing showed no abnormalities except leukopenia (the white blood cell count was 2,600 cells/mm3 in one patient and 3,100 cells/m...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hochman MS

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a histopathologic study of he meibomian glands of seven patients (all men, ranging in age from 58 to 83 years) who had severe or moderately severe meibomian dysfunction and who were undergoing ectropion or entropion repair. Abnormal features included signs of obstruction and dilatation of ducts, enlargeme...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Gutgesell VJ,Stern GA,Hood CI

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a two-year period a randomly selected age-stratified sample of subjects 65 years old and older living in Gisborne, New Zealand, was examined by an ophthalmologist to investigate visual acuity and the prevalence of the major disorders of vision in old age. A total of 481 subjects (a response rate of 86.2%) compl...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Martinez GS,Campbell AJ,Reinken J,Allan BC

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 300 visual fields of 153 consecutive patients who had glaucoma or increased intraocular pressures. All the visual fields were plotted with the same technique on a Goldmann perimeter. Crowding of the peripheral nasal isopters was said to be present when the nasal isopter, outlined with the peripheral thresho...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： de Oliveira Rassi M,Shields MB

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual field testing of 166 phakic eyes with optic nerve damage from open-angle glaucoma before and after one year of treatment showed that the visual fields of myopic eyes improved more often than those of nonmyopic eyes (12% vs 6%) and worsened less often (6% vs 18%). These results suggested that myopia, which adver...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Phelps CD

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 19 eyes of 16 patients who had filamentary keratitis associated with various diseases of the cornea with 5% sodium chloride eyedrops, administered three to four times daily. Filaments associated with acute or traumatic diseases of the cornea responded in all nine cases, with rapid resolution of symptoms and...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hamilton W,Wood TO

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man who had been taking betamethasone for 20 days experienced a slight bilateral decrease in visual acuity. There were localized dark-gray atrophic lesions at the posterior pole, accompanied by a diffuse detachment of the sensory retina. The retinal vessels appeared to be normal and only minimal anterior...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hayashi M,Yoshimura N,Kondo T

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We noted two instances of forceps-induced fragmentation of the bar used for scleral plug storage during vitreous surgery. The silicone bar material was adherent to the plug in both cases. Because this represents a significant intraocular foreign body hazard, the scleral plug should be carefully inspected before insert...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Bovino JA,Marcus DF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old black boy complained of intermittent occipital headaches with nausea and projectile vomiting. Previous skin and lung biopsy specimens were interpreted as histiocytosis X. Cranial computed tomographic scanning disclosed a mass lesion in the region of the choroid plexus of the left lateral ventricle. This...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kline LB,Skalka HW,Davidson JD,Wilmes FJ

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have modified a Maumenee-Park eyelid speculum to permit eyelid retraction in the direct plane of action of the lids and to avoid pressure on the globe from the speculum weight. A ball-joint at the end of the blade allows the blade to adjust with the eyelid. Increased angulation of the sidearm places the blade perpen...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Krupin T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schirmer tests showed decreased tearing (less than 15 mm of wetting) in 32 of 54 eyes (59%) of a representative group of patients with corneal xerophthalmia but in only four of 60 eyes (7%) of age-, sex-, and neighborhood-matched controls (P less than .001). The occurrence of decreased tearing was directly related to ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sommer A,Emran N

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the intraocular pressure-decreasing effect of timolol maleate alone, acetazolamide alone, and combined timolol and acetazolamide therapy in nine patients with bilateral chronic open-angle glaucoma. Timolol decreased intraocular pressure at least as effectively as acetazolamide. The two medications together...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Berson FG,Epstein DL

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitreous surgery techniques can be used to remove epiretinal tissue associated with various ocular conditions when this tissue covers, distorts, or detaches the macula and causes visual loss. Because the postoperative visual acuity is often between 6/9 (20/30) and 6/30 (20/100), we usually operate on eyes with preoper...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Michels RG

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I used a recording medication monitor to obtain objective information on self-medication by date and hour from a group of 82 patients using pilocarpine three times daily to prevent visual loss from glaucoma. Doses meant to be taken during the day were missed more than twice as often as morning or evening doses. Of the...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Norell SE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this prospective evaluation of the reliability and efficiency of an optimized visual field screening protocol for glaucoma, we tested 145 eyes (73 patients) with increased intraocular pressures to determine the location of early glaucomatous visual field defects. The field examination, which was used as a control, ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rabin S,Kolesar P,Podos SM,Wilensky JT

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 1,000 eyes of 500 subjects in an attempt to discover a relationship between lattice and snail track degenerations of the peripheral retina. Because of the clinical similarities between these two degeneration lesions, we suggest that snail track degeneration is either a variant of or an early stage of lattic...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Shukla M,Ahuja OP

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new sorting test requires only two minutes for quantitative estimation of saturation thresholds for bluish pigment colors. The test is highly sensitive to and specific for differences between normal subjects and individuals with acquired color vision defects. When combined with Ishihara's pseudo-isochromatic plates,...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Frisén L,Kalm H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old woman developed a recurrent mucinous sweat gland adenocarcinoma of the eyelid. The clinical characteristics of this rare, primary adnexal neoplasm of skin in our patient were, to our knowledge, unique. The tumor mimicked a lacrimal sac tumor and had orbital extension demonstrated preoperatively by comput...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Cohen KL,Peiffer RL,Lipper S

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 50-year-old man sustained severe head injury, including a brief loss of consciousness, in an automobile accident. Skull X-ray films disclosed a fracture of the right superior orbit. Computed tomography demonstrated pneumocephalus and extension of the fracture into the sella turcica. Perimetric testing disclosed a bi...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Resneck JD,Lederman IR

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new model of retinal neovascularization in the rabbit. After intravitreal autotransplantation of 250,000 tissue-cultured skin fibroblasts, we observed strand formation in the midvitreous cavity. These strands grew toward the vascularized part of the retina and attached to it. Once the attachment wa...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Tano Y,Chandler DB,Machemer R

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman experienced bilateral hearing loss, progressive nasal obstruction, and rhinorrhea. Examination disclosed a retropharyngeal mass. A needle biopsy specimen of the mass showed that it was a chordoma. The patient underwent surgery to remove the mass and received a postoperative course of radioactive co...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Ferry AP,Haddad HM,Goldman JL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the hereditary pattern of acute anterior uveitis, we examined seven families-one family with four cases, one family with three cases, and four families with two cases of acute anterior uveitis. A total of 16 patients with uveitis and 28 relatives underwent ocular examinations and serologic determination o...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Tiilikainen A,Koskimies S,Eriksson A,Frants R

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used narrow-band (540-nm) green-light stereoscopic fundus photography to study the surface details of the peripapillary retina in 14 patients. Each photograph was divided into four areas; the papillomacular bundle, the upper arcuate bundle, the lower arcuate bundle, and the nasal sectorial fibers. We scored each ar...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Manor RS,Schleinn N,Yassur Y,Svetliza E,Ben-Sira I

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent of visual function loss from nuclear cataractous change can be estimated by observing the extinction of blue light compared to white light as a function of sagittal lens depth in standard slit lamps. Apparent extinction (loss of transmissivity) of 50% or more of the depth of the lens in blue light of maxima...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Krohn DL,Asbell P,Ullian K,Katz S

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-inflicted mutilation of the eyes is an uncommon but fairly distinct entity. Patients are typically young men; they often have criminal records and histories of drug abuse. Underlying schizophrenia is a common feature. The patients frequently suffer from castration fears, oedipal conflicts, repressed homosexual im...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Yang HK,Brown GC,Magargal LE

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study of eyes with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment compared the reattachment rate in two groups of eyes: in the control group, cryopexy was applied over the retinal breaks during surgery; in the test group, cryopexy was not applied. There was a similar rate of retinal reattachment in the two groups in the...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Axer-Siegel R,Yassur Y,Ben-Sira I

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with leukemia developed corneal toxicity while receiving high doses (3 g/m2) of systemic cytarabine. Symptoms began five to seven days after initiation of treatment with high doses of systemic cytarabine and consisted of ocular pain, tearing, foreign-body sensation, photophobia, and blurred vision. All ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hopen G,Mondino BJ,Johnson BL,Chervenick PA

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome includes inflammation of the uveal tract, retina, and meninges. Integumentary and auditory signs are common. Neurologic involvement has been reported. We studied two patients who manifested many of the varied clinical signs of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, but who also showed focal n...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Lubin JR,Loewenstein JI,Frederick AR Jr

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined a patient who had syphilitic perioptic neuritis, a rarely diagnosed inflammation of the sheaths of the optic nerves that may be confused with papilledema caused by brain tumor or pseudotumor cerebri. The visual acuity was typically normal, and the only visual-field abnormality was enlargement of the blind ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Rush JA,Ryan EJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old obese woman with hypertension and a three-year history of pseudotumor cerebri developed bilateral juxtapapillary subretinal neovascular membranes. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of bilateral subretinal neovascular membranes complicating the course of this disease. The subretinal neovas...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Morse PH,Leveille AS,Antel JP,Burch JV

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipivefrin, an epinephrine prodromal drug, was used in conjunction with timolol maleate to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of combined therapy. Seventeen patients who had used timolol maleate for at least six months added dipivefrin (Group 1) and seven patients who had used dipivefrin for at least six months add...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Keates EU,Stone RA

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b is a syndrome, often familial, characterized by medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland, pheochromocytoma, and many mucosal neuromas in patients who frequently have a marfanoid habitus. The ophthalmic findings are distinctive and include conjunctival and eyelid neuromas, keratocon...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Riley FC Jr,Robertson DM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00