[Ambulatory cataract surgery].

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study is to show the result of outpatient cataract surgery and its differences or advantages with inpatient cataract surgery.

Patients And Methods: The retrospective study concern 722 consecutives patients collected from June 1995 till May 1997; 388 underwent outpatient cataract surgery and 384 underwent inpatient cataract surgery.

Results: There were non significant difference between the two groups in type of cataract surgery.

[Primary hyperoxaluria: Tunisian experience apropos of 24 pediatric cases].

We report on 24 children (10 girls) presenting with primary hyperoxaluria. The mean age at diagnosis was 6.3 years (range: 3 months-14.

[Ocular signs of primary hyperoxaluria type I].

Purpose: To report the results of ophthalmological examination of 14 patients with primary oxalosis of type I, and to appreciate the diagnostic value of these signs.

Material And Methods: Fourteen patients, 7 girls and 7 boys with an average age of 8-35 years (3 months - 15 years). Ten patients had renal failure, 2 died without dialysis and eight were treated with dialysis; 5 out of 8 had hemodialysis and the duration of this treatment varied between 3 months and 3.

[Gelatinous dystrophy of the cornea. Apropos of 5 cases].

Gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy is a rare disease, described for the first time by Nakaizumi (Japan) in 1914. We report 5 cases of this primary corneal amyloidosis. Three of our patients are brothers, the two other cases are isolated cases.

[Treatment of late leaking of filtering bullae].

Leaking filtering blebs must be repaired immediately to avoid major complications such as hypotony and endophtalmitis. We report four cases of leaking filtering blebs occurring between one to six years after trabeculectomy. Revealing signs were hypotony in two cases and athalamia in two cases.