Ocular features in Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome: investigation of 24 patients and review of the literature.

Aims: To delineate the nature and frequency of ocular pathology in Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTs).

Methods: Literature was searched for reports describing ocular symptoms in patients with RTs. 24 RTs patients (out of a total of 73 Dutch known RTs individuals) were selected for ophthalmological and electrophysiological examination, selection being based only on the distance between a patient's residence and the place of investigation.

Long term ocular and neurological involvement in severe congenital toxoplasmosis.

Aims: This study was set up to determine the long term ocular and systemic sequelae in patients with severe congenital toxoplasmosis.

Methods: Cross sectional and retrospective study of 17 patients with severe congenital toxoplasmosis.

Results: In addition to chorioretinitis (100%), the most common abnormal ocular features were optic nerve atrophy (83%), visual acuity of less than 0.

The Visual Advice Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. An intervenient evaluation.

On referral by ophthalmologists, the Visual Advice Centre provides the partially sighted with advice and prescriptions for illumination and visual aids. In this paper the multidisciplinary structure of the centre is presented and the results obtained in the first 18 months of its existence are discussed. Two hundred and ninety-eight patients were referred to the centre in this period.