Blindness in a pulseless young woman: lessons learned.

Purpose: To report a young woman who presented with blindness secondary to ocular ischemic syndrome (OIS) as the initial presenting feature of Takayasu arteritis (TA).

Design: Case report.

Methods: Computer tomography (CT) aortogram showed severely stenosed aortic branches.

Cost analysis of cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation: a single blind randomised clinical trial comparing extracapsular cataract extraction and phacoemulsification.

A randomised single blinded clinical trial to compare the cost of cataract surgery between extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PEA) was conducted at Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) between March and December 2000. A total of 60 patients were included in this study. The cost of a cataract surgery incurred by hospital, patients and households up to two months after discharge were included.