Periocular basal cell carcinoma - clinical perspectives.

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) as a non-melanoma skin cancer type is the most common malignant tumor throughout the world. The incidence is higher in age over 60. The intense of exposure to ultraviolet radiation is one of the known risk factors.

Secondary glaucoma in small versus large uveal melanoma patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery on linear accelerator.

Aim: Secondary radiation-related side effects like secondary glaucoma (SG) of different modalities of treatment in uveal melanoma patients can appear in certain interval after therapy. This study describes the incidence of SG in patients after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).

Method: The data of 230 patients treated by SRS were reviewed for SG.

Results of pars plana vitrectomy for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment with PVR grades A and B in high-myopic eyes.

Purpose: To evaluate the results of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) without adjuvant buckling procedures for the primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) with PVR grades A and B in high-myopic eyes.

Methods: A retrospective review included 291 eyes treated for primary RRD from 2008 to 2016. The single surgery success rate (SSSR), the total number of surgeries, outcomes and complications were analysed between group of 67 eyes with high axial myopia (group A) and group of 224 eyes without high myopia (group B).

Care for Haemoglobinopathy Patients in Slovakia.

Background: The paper presents the results od 22-year study of screening and follow-up of haemoglobinopathies in Slovakia, an overview of genetic mutations, the coincidence with hereditary haemochromatosis mutations, and the procedure in genetic councelling.

Methods: Between 1993-2015, in three centres in Bratislava and in one centre in Kosice, carriers of beta-thalassaemic genes or other haemoglobinopathies were searched for. Diagnosis was performed by haematologists, whereby the family history was evaluated, together with the overall clinical condition, blood count and blood smear, iron and haemolysis parameters, mutations of hereditary haemochromatosis, and haemoglobin electrophoresis testing.

[The Schmid-Fraccaro syndrome].

The authors describe a female patient with bilateral colobomatous malformations of the uvea in conjunction with anorectal atresia and other symptoms suggesting Schmid-Fraccaro's syndrome called also cat eye syndrome. Using fluorescent hybridization in situ, the authors identified the supernumerous bisatellite marker chromosome derived from chromosome 22 which made it possible to confirm the suspected diagnosis.