[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.

[Contribution of an ophthalmologic test to the diagnosis of familial nephropathies. Apropos of 10 cases].

The authors reported ten cases of familial nephropathy (two cystinosis, three Senior and Loken syndrome, one Alport's syndrome and four Oxalosis) associated to ocular manifestations. Aetiologic diagnosis was known from ocular symptoms in five cases (all cases of cystinosis and Senior and Loken syndrome). The authors undertook this study to analyse the value of ocular manifestations in determining the right aetiologic diagnosis in familial nephropathies.

[Type 1 neurofibromatosis in Tunisia: 66 cases].

A multidisciplinary transversal descriptive study was conducted from June to October 1992 to determine the clinical manifestations and laboratory findings observed in 66 patients with type 1 neurofibromatosis. Diagnostic criteria were those of the National Institute of Health as recommended for subjects over 20 years of age. All patients over the age of 25 had café au lait spots, neurofibromas, lentigines and nodules.

[Behçet's disease disclosed by ocular conjunctival aphthous ulcer. Apropos of a case].

Aphthosis in Behçet's disease is usually located in the oro-genital areas, but other locations have been described. The authors report the case of a 45 year old woman who presented with an ocular conjunctival aphthous ulcer. This was the initial presentation of Behçet's disease.

[Goldenhar syndrome. Surgical emergency apropos of a case].

We report a case of Goldenhar syndrome in a six week old infant. This patient had bilateral peribulbar choristoma, bilateral pre-auricular appendix and left superior palpebral coloboma with severe exposure keratitis. This condition necessitated an emergency surgical eyelid repair.

[Macular edema and chronic renal insufficiency].

The authors report two cases of macular oedema in two patients suffering from chronic renal failure. One of the patients, a women aged 36, with a renal transplant, presented with intra-retinal macular oedema, caused by a marked impairment of renal function. In the second case, the macular oedema, associated with papilloedema occurred in a patient aged 56, the day after renal dialysis and spontaneously regressed.