Purpose: To evaluate a 12-year follow-up of myopic patients after iris-fixated phakic intraocular lenses (IF pIOLs) implantation. . Ophthalmology Department, Military University Hospital in Prague (Czech Republic).
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November 2007
In a randomized prospective open study the authors followed up the influence of latanoprost 0.005 % on the changes of the ciliary body thickness by means of ultrasound biomicroscopy. The study group consisted of 40 eyes of 24 patients with primary open angle glaucoma not treated with latanoprost before.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors followed up 107 eyes of 103 patients with the diagnosis of painful secondary glaucoma treated by irradiation of the ciliary body by means of Leksell gama knife (LGK Elekta Instruments AB). The goal was to decrease patient's subjective problems in to the treatment resistant and painful stages using non-invasive stereo tactic neurosurgical procedure. The final version of the irradiation schedule uses 8 mm collimators and the irradiation dose in blind eyes is 40 Gy at the maximum and 20 Gy at the peripheral treating 50% isodose; in partly sighted eyes it is 30 Gy at the maximum and 15 Gy at the peripheral treating 50% isodose.
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