[Recovery of sickle cell disease ischemic maculopathy after erythropheresis: a clinical case study].

The authors report a case of a young patient with a recent decrease in unilateral vision. He had homozygote sickle cell disease with multiple general complications. Fundus examination was normal apart from a mild alteration of the macular reflect in the left eye, but fluorescein angiography showed multiple arteriolar macular occlusions, explaining the decrease in vision in the left eye.

Corneo-conjunctival autograft transplantation for pterygium surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of surgical management of pterygium with corneo-conjunctival autograft transplantation.

Setting: Ophthalmology Department, Bicêtre Hospital, University Paris XI and the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

Methods: The records of 104 patients (114 eyes), comprising 40 women and 64 men, who underwent corneo-conjunctival autograft transplantation for primary (104 eyes) and recurrent (10 eyes) pterygia between 1992 and 1998, were reviewed in a retrospective survey.

[Circumstances of choroid and ciliary body melanoma detection].

Purpose: To report and analyze the circumstances of uveal melanoma detection.

Methods: The records of 143 consecutive patients diagnosed in the Ophthalmology Department of Gustave Roussy Institute between September 1994 and September 2001 were analyzed. The study included 66 females and 77 males, aged from 21 to 91 years (mean, 62.

[Characteristics of uveitis presenting de novo in the elderly].

Introduction: This study aimed to describe the clinical characteristics of uveitis presenting de novo in the elderly. The study design was a description of a retrospectively identified case series.

Patients: The records of 193 patients with uveitis referred to Bicêtre Hospital's department of ophthalmology between January 1995 and January 2000 were reviewed.

[Bilateral diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation associated with systemic carcinoma: two case reports].

Diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome resulting in rapid bilateral visual loss in patients with systemic carcinoma, caused by proliferation of benign melanocytes within the choroid and the ciliary body. More often visual impairment is due to retinal detachment and cataract. The authors report two cases of presumed diffuse uveal melanocytic proliferation.