[Effect of change in refraction by increasing intraocular pressure with the suction cup method on pattern reversal VECP].

When IOP is increased by the suction cup method, refraction changes will occur, depending on the shape of the cup and the height of the IOP increase. Similar refraction changes were simulated in six healthy volunteers by employing spherical and cylindrical glasses during pattern-reversal visual evoked cortical potential (VECP) with various check sizes and amount of contrast. While the pattern-reversal VECP latencies were not influenced, the amplitudes were reduced considerably.

Refraction changes during elevation of intraocular pressure by suction cup, their reflection in the pattern visual evoked cortical potential and their compensation.

Visual evoked cortical potential studies using pattern stimuli with the intraocular pressure raised artificially by the suction cup method have been reported. Possible changes in the refraction of the eye due to the method employed and their influence on the pattern visual evoked cortical potential have not been considered. Changes in the refraction of the eye during artificial intraocular pressure elevation and the influence of such changes on pattern visual evoked cortical potentials were studied.

[Effect of welding arcs on the eyes of patients with contact lenses (literature study)].

Two accidents had been reported from abroad, within which contact lense users grew blind after staying quite near at electrical arcs. It is supposed that the contact lenses had been "welded" with the cornea by influence of the electromagnetic radiation. Removal of lenses shall have caused the cornea "ablation" and thus the subjects permanent blindness.