Prevention of sympathetic ophthalmia. State of the art 1989.

Ophthalmologists are daily confronted with intraocular inflammation following trauma and/or intraocular surgery. In rare cases, this may lead to the loss of visual function in both eyes, i.e.

[Dyslexia-- a peculiar form of heterophoria?].

The authors discuss the problem of legasthenia--a particular impediment in the learning of fluent reading and orthographic writing. One connects it with a form of heterophoria in which the eyes--because of an inacurate and changeable function of binocular vision are unable to exert precise saccadic movements enabling a binocular or precisely unimacular reading. A childish art of following with the eyes from one detail to the other during the learning of reading must be transformed into minute fixation movements in conditions of a permanent excitation of convergence and accommodation to which the child is not accustomed.

Sympathetic ophthalmia, a genuine autoimmune disease.

Intraocular inflammation of exogenous origin, which may lead to the loss of visual function in both eyes, i.e. SO confronts ophthalmologists much less rarely than might be expected.