Clinical outcomes of a toric continuous range of vision presbyopia-correcting intraocular lens.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcomes of the toric version of a presbyopia-correcting intraocular lens (IOL) based on the combination of a diffractive-based extended depth-of-focus (EDOF) pattern and a diffractive multifocal platform.

Setting: Miranza COI Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain.

Design: Prospective case series.

Medical and surgical treatment of primary divergent strabismus.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term effectiveness of different therapies applied in the past 30 years, both medical and surgical, and results, with the ultimate aim of determining which are the most appropriate criteria to indicate when and how to perform medical and surgical treatment in these patients.

Method: A retrospective randomized study was conducted on 198 patients with primary divergent strabismus first seen in our clinic (IOC) in the last 36 years (1976-2012), with a mean follow-up of 8.38 years.

Combined use of non-thoracotomy cardioverter defibrillators and endocardial pacemakers.

Objective: To study the potential interactions in patients with endocardial permanent pacemakers and non-thoracotomy implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) systems.

Design: Case series and cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary referral centre.

[A historical view of cardiology in Chile 1930-1990].

The most significant facts in the development of Chilean cardiology since 1930 are reviewed. The preeminence of great clinicians in the thirties was followed by the creation of Departments of Cardiology in University Hospitals. The emergence of powerful diagnostic tools and cardiac surgery allowed an accelerated development of this specialty in our country.