[Investigations on the relationship between intraocular pressure and perifoveal capillary circulation in glaucoma patients using the entoptic blood corpuscle phenomenon (author's transl)].

Blood circulation in the central retina was examined in 30 eyes suffering from glaucoma, using the entoptic phenomenon to count leucocytes travelling through the retinal capillaries in the macula area. Two measurements were taken for each eye at different intraocular pressure levels and the results were compared with each other. They showed that reduction of an originally high intraocular tension level significantly increased the blood flow.

[Experience with magnet implantation in lagophthalmos (author's transl)].

The results of magnet implantation in the upper and lower eyelids of 29 patients suffering from Keratopathia due to lagophthalmos due to facial palsy as well as the surgical techniques involved are described. Contrary to a lateral tarsorrhaphy - still popular today - this method does not alter the form or the size of the palpebral fissure nor does it hinder the visual field. It is technically simple to perform and easily reversible should nerve function recover.

Preliminary experience with lid magnets for paralytic lagophthalmos.

Between February, 1974, and mid-December, 1975, 43 patients with paralytic facial palsy were operated upon with lid magnets, according to a method first devised by Mühlbauer and others (1973). When 37 patients were re-examined 3 months to 2 years post-operatively, 27 had both magnets in situ functioning well. In nine patients one or both magnets had been removed because of return of 7th nerve function.