A mixed-methods study on evaluating an updated, francophone version of ETAT+ training in Madagascar.

Background: Madagascar needs major efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, despite the considerable reduction of child mortality during past years. In this context, implementation of emergency triage assessment and treatment (ETAT) plays an important role. In recent years, ETAT training activities rarely took place in Madagascar.

TOPIRAMATE-INDUCED BILATERAL ANGLE-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA. A CASE REPORT.

Introduction: Topamax (topiramate) is a drug used in the treatment of epilepsy or migraine. Its use may rarely be associated with the occurrence of secondary angle-closure glaucoma due to supraciliary effusion. Although the ocular finding resembles primary angle-closure glaucoma, bilateral infliction should always raise the suspicion that it is drug-induced glaucoma.

PRE-RETINOPATHY OF TYPE 1 DIABETES IN THE CONTEXT OF FUNCTIONAL, STRUCTURAL AND MICROCIRCULATORY CHANGES IN THE MACULAR AREA.

Aim: The authors assessed the development of intraocular changes in type 1 diabetes (T1DM) from the onset of the disease leading to diabetic retinopathy (DR). The quote: “There must be an intermediate stage between the physiological intraocular finding and the diabetic retinopathy itself “, (prof. Jan Vavřinec).

CHANGES OF THE FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONE AND MACULAR MICROVASCULATURE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OCT ANGIOGRAPHY EXAMINATION IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES (PILOT STUDY).

Aim: Learn about the development and changes in foveal avascular zone (FAZ) and vascularity of retina in the surrounding zone, depending on the duration in young diabetic patients type 1 (T1DM).

Methods: As part of regular one-year examinations of young T1DM patients at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Královské Vinohrady in Prague (Czech Republic, EU) from January to December 2019, OCT angiography using the device Spectralis (Heidelberg Engineering) was included. Forty patients aged 18 to 30 years were examined, median 21 years.

[Contrast sensitivity and optic coherence tomography examinations in adolescent patients with diabetes type I preretinopathy (a pilot study)].

Aim: To evaluate the development of retinal changes in adolescent patients with diabetes type I (T1DM) with diseases duration more than 10 years, which started before 5 years of age.

Methods: The development of the findings on the posterior pole was followed up. The retinal functions were established by means of contrast sensitivity in four space frequencies: 3 cycles/degree (c/deg) (perimacular area), 6 c/deg and 12 c/deg (macular area), and, finally, 18 c/deg (foveola).