Sarfarazi dual optic accommodative intraocular lens.

The Sarfarazi accommodative intraocular lens, currently in clinical studies, is a single continuous silicon accommodative lens with dual optics and three haptics that mimic the action of the natural lens by using the contraction and relaxation of ciliary muscles. The lenses have been implanted in the eyes of patients. There have been no surgical or patient complications related to the lens, and its safety has been clearly demonstrated.

Comparison of topical ciprofloxacin to conventional antibiotic therapy in the treatment of ulcerative keratitis.

We evaluated the efficacy of ciprofloxacin (3 mg/ml) as the sole topical antibiotic used to treat infectious keratitis in 14 patients. We compared the ciprofloxacin-treated group to a retrospective control group of 30 consecutive culture-positive patients treated with conventional therapy in which cefazolin (50 mg/ml) and fortified gentamicin sulfate (9.1 mg/ml) solutions were used.

Confocal laser scanning ophthalmoscope. Reproducibility of optic nerve head topographic measurements with the confocal laser scanning ophthalmoscope.

Background: Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy in which changes in the appearance of both the optic nerve head and the surrounding tissues are important in both diagnosing its presence and progression. Accurate methods to objectively document the appearance of the optic nerve are necessary. The confocal laser scanning ophthalmoscope (Zeiss) is a new prototype instrument that may have the capability to accurately perform this function.

Prostatic cryptococcosis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

A rare care is presented of recurrent dysuria and urinary obstruction due to cryptococcal prostatitis in a thirty-six-year-old male with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Although there are a handful of reports in the world literature of patients with cryptococcal prostatitis, this appears to be the first case reported related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome.