[Ocular manifestations in patients who had malnutrition in the first six months of life].

Purpose: To investigate possible ophthalmologic alterations in patients who had severe malnutrition during the first six months of life.

Methods: 182 eyes of 91, 2 to 11-year-old, children who had had severe malnutrition during the first six months of life (study group) were analyzed. As a control group 88 children selected according to similar characteristics of age, gender, demographic and economic conditions were included.

[Ophthalmologic findings in multiple handicapped patients].

Purpose: To report the visual findings in patients with multiple handicaps.

Methods: Two hundred and seventy-four patients cared for at the Pediatric and Strabismus Ophthalmology Department of the "Fundação Altino Ventura" - Brazilian National Health System, were examined from June to September 2004. Age varied from 0.

[Retinal nerve fiber layer alteration in chronic users of chloroquine].

Purposes: To evaluate the retina nerve fiber layer by laser polarimetry in patients in chronic use of chloroquine.

Methods: Forty-four eyes of twenty-two patients were studied. These were in use of chloroquine due to rheumatic diseases during at least one year.