Bilateral crystalline corneal deposits as first clinical manifestation of monoclonal gammopathy: a case report.

Aims: To report the clinical and diagnostic findings of a patient with bilateral corneal deposits caused by an underlying monoclonal gammopathy.

Methods: Slit-lamp biomicroscopy, confocal microscopy and additional serological tests were performed on a 35-year-old man presenting with bilateral crystalline corneal deposits.

Results: The patient was diagnosed as having monoclonal gammopathy based on elevated levels of serum immunoglobulin G.

Compromised autoregulatory control of ocular hemodynamics in glaucoma patients after postural change.

Purpose: The autoregulatory control of retrobulbar blood flow in response to postural challenge was investigated in normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients in comparison with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients and healthy volunteers.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Participants And Controls: Twenty POAG patients, 20 NTG patients, and 20 control subjects.

Effects of glaucoma drugs on ocular hemodynamics in normal tension glaucoma: a randomized trial comparing bimatoprost and latanoprost with dorzolamide [ISRCTN18873428].

Background: Reduced choroidal perfusion is hypothesized to play a role in the pathogenesis of normal tension glaucoma. Thus the impact of antiglaucomatous eye drops on ocular perfusion has been the focus of recent research and the subject of intensive investigations. The present study investigates whether topically applied latanoprost or bimatoprost influence ocular perfusion in patients with normal tension glaucoma and compares these effects with that changes detected after the treatment with dorzolamide.

[Therapy of normal tension glaucoma: effect of brinzolamide on ocular haemodynamics].

Background: Altered ocular perfusion plays a role in the pathophysiology of normal tension glaucoma. Dorzolamide, a locally applied inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase, is thought to increase ocular blood flow. Less data are available regarding the influence exercised on ocular perfusion by brinzolamide, another and different, locally administered, inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase.

[Estimation of ocular perfusion: a practical oriented comparison of different methods].

Background: Ocular haemodynamics play a prominent part in many ocular diseases. This leads to the need to determine ocular perfusion. Several studies reveal advantages of colour Doppler imaging (CDI) in ophthalmologic diagnostics.

Estimation of choroid perfusion by colour Doppler imaging vs. other methods.

Ocular haemodynamics play a prominent role in several ocular diseases. Recently, new methods for the determination of ocular perfusion were developed. Colour Doppler imaging (CDI) of orbital vessels has come up in the past decade and was shown to be useful in ophthalmological diagnostics.