Eccentric gaze direction in patients with central field loss.

Purpose: This study describes the binocular eccentric gaze direction (EGD) of 434 patients with binocular central field loss and presents a comparison with other studies on eccentric gaze behavior.

Methods: We reviewed the records of 434 patients with bilateral central scotomas. Eligible patients had not received eccentric viewing training and demonstrated a spontaneously developed eccentric gaze behavior.

Long-term evaluation of eccentric viewing spectacles in patients with bilateral central scotomas.

Purpose: Yoked prism spectacles (eccentric viewing spectacles [EVS]) facilitate eccentric viewing in patients with bilateral central scotomas. This study was conducted to evaluate the long-term success and patient satisfaction of this type of low-vision aid. METHODS.

Experience with shared decision making in gynaecological practice: treatment decisions in patients with dysfunctional uterine blood loss.

Objective: To study the impact of introducing a blood loss chart as a means to support treatment selection in women with dysfunctional uterine blood loss.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review, prospective observational study, and decision modelling.

Results: Introduction of a blood loss chart resulted in a 50% reduction of re-treatments within 1 year (from 25% to 12.

Prevalence of remediable disability due to low vision among institutionalised elderly people.

Background: Prevalence of remediable visual disability among institutionalised elderly people, resulting from inappropriate use or non-use of low-vision aids, is reported to be high, but largely rests on anecdotal evidence.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of binocular low vision and underlying eye diseases among institutionalised elderly people in a Dutch urban population and the size of remediable visual disability as the result of inappropriately corrected low vision.

Methods: The design was a cross-sectional survey of 284 subjects with low vision (corrected binocular vision <0.

Side effects after radiotherapy of age-related macular degeneration with the Nijmegen technique.

Background: In a randomized trial concerning radiotherapy for age-related macular degeneration, fluorescein angiograms were taken of controls and patients. In this study the frequency of side effects in eyes receiving radiotherapy with the Nijmegen technique is compared with the findings in the eyes of controls.

Methods: Patients receiving treatment were irradiated by two isocentric photon beams in four fractions of 6 Gy that were directed to the macular area at 30 degrees and -30 degrees with regard to the optical axis.