abstract：:We treated nontraumatic ectopia lentis with the irrigation and aspiration method in 30 children and the Keeler/SITE instrument in three. Preoperative visual acuities were 6/21 (20/70) or worse in all patients; postoperatively, visual acuities improved in 29 of the 30 eyes and were 6/18 (20/60) or better in 24 (80%). A...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Seetner AA,Crawford JS

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the ultrastructural characteristics of an experimental model of traction retinal detachment secondary to a penetrating eye injury in the rhesus monkey. Cells with the characteristics of myofibroblasts were present in the intravitreal fibrous tissue and in epiretinal membranes. These cells were probably deri...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Cleary PE,Minckler DS,Ryan SJ

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to organic isocyanates in the atmosphere of a polyurethane-foam-producing company resulted in microcystic corneal epithelial edema and conjunctival injection localized primarily in the palpebral fissure. The degree of microcystic edema and decreased visual acuity appeared to be related to location, length of ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Luckenbach M,Kielar R

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two siblings had atrophic maculopathy associated with hereditary ataxia clinically defined as an olivopontocerebellar degeneration. The macular changes were suggestive of an early bull's-eye maculopathy in one case and of a late atrophic stage of bull's-eye maculopathy in the other. This suggests that concentric annul...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Duinkerke-Eerola KU,Cruysberg JR,Deutman AF

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total retinal detachment and neovascular glaucoma occurred after a penetrating injury to the left globe that left the eye blind and painful. A retrobulbar injection of alcohol and enucleation modified but did not relieve the orbital discomfort. At surgery, we discovered a neuroma with cartilaginous metaplasia involvin...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Sutula FC,Weiter JJ

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the elderly patient with a massive vitreous hemorrhage in one eye and senile macular choroidal degenerative changes in the fellow eye, a hemorrhagic disciform detachment causing this massive vitreous hemorrhage must be considered in the differential diagnosis. Ultrasonography selectively combined with radioactive p...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Tani PM,Buettner H,Robertson DM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old woman developed bilateral blindness along with severe preeclampsia of pregnancy. Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed chalky-white optic disks with only minimal changes in the retinal vasculature. After caesarean section, the preeclampsia improved, and complete return of visual acuity occurred during a ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Beck RW,Gamel JW,Willcourt RJ,Berman G

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30-year-old man developed bilateral iridocyclitis with iris roseolae and papules three months after the rash of secondary syphilis. The inflammation resolved after treatment with penicillin, intramuscularly, topically given corticosteroids, and cycloplegics. The serum immune-complex levels were slightly increased. I...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Schwartz LK,O'Connor GR

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed an ophthalmic fixation device that stabilizes an enucleated eye, and helps both in the pathologic examination of the eye and in ophthalmic practice surgery. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Wing GL,Weiter JJ

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 13-year-old boy developed an osteogenic sarcoma of the right humerus ten years after treatment for bilateral retinoblastoma. The bilateral retinoblastoma has been managed with enucleation of one eye and successful treatment of the solitary tumor in the other eye with a single application of a local 10-mm round cobal...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Abramson DH,Ellsworth RM,Kitchin FD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I fitted nine aphakic patients who had undergone penetrating keratoplasty with extended-wear hydrophilic contact lenses (55% to 80% water content). All patients had edematous host corneas. Eight of nine developed vascularization of the graft after two to 30 weeks of contact lens wear. One patient developed a presumed ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Lemp MA

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a new method for photographing cataractous lens opacaities by retroillumination. The slit-lamp microscope was modified with an adaptor to eliminate the specular reflection from the corneal surface. We construcated two kinds of adaptors for the Zeiss and Goldmann-type slit-lamp microscopes. The cataractous l...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kawara T,Obazawa H

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 46-year-old woman had a hemangioma of the zygoma, which was excised flush with the normal bony contour. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second such case reported. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Brackup AH,Haller ML,Danber MM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I devised a new technique using a thermal wedge resection at the time of keratoplasty to reduce excessive amounts of corneal astigmatism. Surface cautery was used to draw this thermal wedge of corneal tissue into the area to be trephined, and removed at surgery from the patient's cornea. The final result was the same ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hatch JL

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a handheld disposable cautery for the diagnostic scraping of corneal ulcers. Sterility of the tip is obtained by activating the unit until the tip reaches a red-hot color and then allowing it to cool. The unit has a sturdy, well-defined tip, and is self-sterilizing, reusable, readily available, and simple to u...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Olijnyk I,Marchese AL,McDonald JE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with X-chromosome-linked recessive Norrie's disease, characterized by retinal falciform fold, retinal detachment, repeated vitreous hemorrhage, and retrolental membrane formation, was observed from age 6 weeks. The patient showed the clinical progression from these early retinal and vitreous changes to the m...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Jacklin HN

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 20 patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. They represented 3.7% of referred patients with uveitis. American Indian ancestry appears to be the link to Oriental racial type. Five patients had a forme fruste retinal detachment. After extensive treatment with corticosteroids, detachments flattened within ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Snyder DA,Tessler HH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We re-assessed nine patients (aged 2 to 28 years) in whom true Brown's syndrome had been diagnosed and superior oblique muscle tenotomy performed. The postoperative period ranged from three to 12 years. The final results were divided into three groups: (1) Patients with partial residual Brown's syndrome postoperativel...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Crawford JS,Orton RB,Labow-Daily L

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old man had a sudden onset of night blindness 3 1/2 years after intestinal bypass surgery for morbid obesity. Ocular examination disclosed a probable Bitot's spot and electrophysiologic testing showed markedly impaired dark adaptation and subnormal electroretinography. After therapy with orally administered ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Brown GC,Felton SM,Benson WE

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients underwent vitrectomy with the use of intraocular gas. In one patient the cornea decompensated because of lens-cornea contact and in the second patient a surgical technique devised to protect the cornea from lens contact was used successfully. The technique consisted of injecting a smaller gas bubble into ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Diddie KR,Smith RE

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old woman had a pigmented ciliary body mass that extended through the iris into the anterior chamber. On the basis of clinical findings and ancillary diagnostic studies, the clinical diagnosis was malignant melanoma of the ciliary body. The enucleated eye showed the tumor to be composed of cells identical to...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Shields JA,Augsburger JJ,Bernardino V Jr,Eller AW,Kulczycki E

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined 242 healthy neonates. Five developed transient tonic downward deviation of the eyes and eight showed any resultant visual, systemic, or neurologic abnormality. However, five of the 22 children with neonatal skew deviation developed a subsequent comitant horizontal stabismus. Although transient supranuclear...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Hoyt CS,Mousel DK,Weber AA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the records of 74 patients with exfoliation syndrome. Patients with exfoliation syndrome represented 12% of the current Glaucoma Clinic population. There were 40 unilateral and 34 bilateral cases. Thirteen percent of the patients who originally had unilateral exfoliation later developed exfoliation in the ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Roth M,Epstein DL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined more than 300 children as outpatients with orally administered chloral hydrate sedation during the past three years; 175 of them have been examined in the last year. Without chloral hydrate sedation, examination under anesthesia would have been necessary or the results would have been less than satisfactor...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Judisch GF,Anderson S,Bell WE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lacrimal tissue and accessory lacrimal tissue from seven autopsy cases, lacrimal tissue from three patients undergoing orbital exploration, and biopsy specimens from conjunctiva of 14 subjects were examined for the presence and distribution of secretory component by three anti-secretory-component antisera. Secretory c...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Allansmith MR,Gillette TE

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a technique for surgical management of fibrovascular membranes to relieve epiretinal tangential traction when present in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Sharp dissection with intraocular scissors was used to segment fibrovascular and cortical vitreous membranes together with cauterization of large vessels ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Meredith TA,Kaplan HJ,Aaberg TM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy with acute lymphocytic leukemia developed iris infiltration, blood-streaked hypopyon, and high intraocular pressure. A diagnostic anterior chamber paracentesis was performed, which provided a cytologic diagnosis. The aspirate was studied by both the millipore filter technique with Papanicolaou stain a...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Zakka KA,Yee RD,Shorr N,Smith GS,Pettit TH,Foos RY

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 29 experiments, vascular autologous retina from the contralateral rabbit eye was implanted into corneal pockets in New Zealand white rabbits. The implants induced a neovascular growth of limbal vessels that anastomosed with the vessels of the implant in 15 of the cases. Implantation of vascular autologous iris, cho...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Federman JL,Brown GC,Felberg NT,Felton SM

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3 1/2-month-old boy with the cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome had low birth weight, microcephaly, microphthalmia, cataracts, blepharophimosis, high nasal bridge, micrognathia, kyphosis, rocker-bottom feet, and a longitudinal foot groove. The product of a consanguineous parentage, he showed marked developmental ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Grizzard WS,O'Donnell JJ,Carey JC

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple makeshift retinoscopy rack consists of various trial lenses placed into the slots of a nonfrosted, 35-mm slide viewing sheet. It is useful in determining the patient's refractive error at the bedside and in the operating room. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Wing GL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome were typed for HLA-A, B, C, and DR antigens. It was found that 21 (81%) of 26 of the presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome patients with disciform macular scarring and 8 (62%) of 13 of the presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome patients with peripheral atrophic ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Meredith TA,Smith RE,Duquesnoy RJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used scanning electron microscopy to study the surfaces of five coated soft contact lenses from subjects with giant papillary conjunctivitis. Findings were compared to the surfaces of five coated lenses from normal, asymptomatic wearers and five new, nerver-worn lenses. Lenses were from various manufacturers. All w...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Fowler SA,Greiner JV,Allansmith MR

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed combined trabeculectomy-cataract extraction in 37 eyes of 29 patients. Average follow-up was 23.7 months. Thirty-three (89.2%) of the 37 eyes were controlled with much improvement postoperatively. A total of 35 eyes (94.6%) were controlled postoperatively; 22 eyes (59.5%) required no medications postopera...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Johns GE,Layden WE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients were treated for Pseudomonas endophthalmitis associated with the implantation of contaminated intraocular lenses. All patients showed clinical signs of infection (loss of red reflex, diminished visual acuity, and intraocular lens coagulum) and P. aeruginosa was isolated from vitreous aspirates and unuse...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Gerding DN,Poley BJ,Hall WH,LeWin DP,Clark MD

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of lens implant surgery using different implant styles and both methods of cataract extraction revealed that there is little difference in the final visual acuity regardless of which implant or cataract technique is used. There appears to be a higher rate of cystoid macular edema with the intracapsular techni...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Jaffe NS

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients with severe traumatic hyphemas underwent clot evacuation with vitrectomy instrumentation. The patients were followed up for periods of one to four years. No significant intraoperative complications were noted, but one eye developed a postoperative flat anterior chamber and another developed multiple sta...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： McCuen BW,Fung WE

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old boy was stabbed above the left eye and had subsequent loss of both retinal and choroidal perfusion to the posterior segment. Ophthalmoscopic examination ten days after the injury disclosed intense nerve fiber layer edema, most prominent in the posterior pole, and absence of a cherry-red spot. Intravenous...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Brown GC,Magargal LE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I devised a small mirror for hemianopia that is mounted on a clip placed over the spectacle frames on the nasal side. The mirror is adjustable so that the peripheral retina is stimulated by any motion reflected in the mirror when the eye is gazing straight ahead. ...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Mintz MJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with geographic choroiditis developed subretinal neovascular membranes associated with subretinal hemorrhage and serous elevation of the retina. Proximity of the membrane to the foveal avascular zone prevented photocoagulation of the neovascular membrane in one patient. Central visual acuity remained 6/...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Jampol LM,Orth D,Daily MJ,Rabb MF

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in neural crest cell migration may have a role in the pathogenesis of the congenital glaucomas, with or without changes in the gonioscopic appearance of the anterior chamber angle. Neural crest cells also contribute to the bones of the face, dental papilla, cartilage, bone, and meninges; this may explain...

journal_title：American journal of ophthalmology

authors： Kupfer C,Kaiser-Kupfer MI

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00