Comparative in vitro antifungal susceptibility activity of amphotericin B versus amphotericin B methyl ester against Candida albicans ocular isolates.

Purpose: To compare in vitro susceptibility of amphotericin B (AMB) and amphotericin B methyl ester (AME) (a more soluble and less toxic formulation of AMB) against Candida albicans isolates recovered from human cases of endophthalmitis.

Methods: The in vitro susceptibility of AMB and AME was determined for C. albicans isolates recovered from endophthalmitis (N=10) and for C.

Factitious bilateral crystalline keratopathy.

We report a case of bilateral factitious crystalline keratopathy in an 18-year-old man. Initial slit-lamp examination revealed corneal ulcers characterized by stromal infiltrates with intrastromal blue refractile crystals O.D.

Seventy-six consecutive cases of IOGEL intraocular lens implants.

A single piece hydrogel IOGEL (poly-HEMA) intraocular lens was implanted in 76 eyes. Patients obtained a visual acuity of 20/40 or better in 86.9% of cases and a best case visual acuity of 20/40 or better in 98.

Fibronectin on excimer laser and diamond knife incisions.

The experiment was designed to illustrate the difference between the diamond knife and the excimer laser (ArF 193 nm) on keratotomy incisions. The histopathologic effect of fibronectin applied to these wounds was observed. Fibronectin demonstrated a chemotactic effect on fibroblasts and increased the amount of newly synthesized collagen deposited at the incision sites.