[Efficacy and safety of a fluid carbomer gel versus a conventional carbomer gel in dry eye treatment].

Aim: To compare the risk/benefit for C974P (a 0.25% fluid carbomer gel in a vial allowing dropwise instillation) versus a conventional carbomer gel.

Material And Methods: During this multicenter, randomized, investigator-masked trial, patients with dry eye syndrome were treated with C974P or C940.

[Bilateral uveitis with definitive hypotony caused by systemic cidofovir].

We report the case of a 52-year-old man with AIDS and CMV bilateral retinitis, treated first with ganciclovir (cymevan) and then with cidofovir. During the treatment, the patient complained of a sharp decrease in visual acuity. Cycloplegics and topical corticosteroids were given.

[Idiopathic epiphoras in adults treated with lacrymal-nasal stents].

Fluoroscopic nonsurgical placement of an expandable polyurethane stent is less invasive than surgery for the treatment of epiphora due to obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct. It needs to be performed with the collaboration of an ophthalmologist, using a high resolution digital subtraction imaging unit.

[Cost efficiency study of lacrimal canal obstruction treatment].

Objective: To compare three methods used to clear the lacrimal canal.

Patients And Methods: A total of 32 files (20 for the dacryocysto-rhinostomy by endoscopic way, 5 for the dacryocysto-rhinostomy by external way and 7 cases of percutaneous stenting) were reviewed. For each, costs of performed interventions were reviewed.

[Is there a delay in bathing the external eye in the treatment of ammonia eye burns? Comparison of two ophthalmic solutions: physiological serum and Diphotérine].

Purpose: An experimental animal study was conducted to analyze the delay for ocular bathing in the treatment of severe ocular ammonia burns. Two solutions of ocular wash, saline solution and Diphotérine were compared.

Material: and methods: The study included 23 eyes of New Zealand albino rabbits that received for 1 minute 100 microl of 15.