Purpose: This article aims to highlight if the central macular retina suffers changes after cataract surgery, and to evaluate the eventually discovered changes regarding persistence.
Material And Method: This retrospective study, which lasted over three years (2021-2023), included patients who underwent cataract surgery performed by one surgeon. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging assessed macular changes and measured the central macular thickness.
To present the case of a patient with a history of trauma and corneal foreign body in the right eye, followed by decreased visual acuity in the right eye, corneal perforation with good recovery after surgical treatment. We report a case of a patient who presented to our clinic with a sudden decrease of visual acuity in the right eye, two months after an incident resulting in a corneal foreign body in the right eye. In the case presented, the patient applied a local medical self-treatment, an antibiotic and a topical corticosteroid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo present the case of a 22-year-old man with a history of trauma on the right eye, followed by a sudden decrease of visual acuity on the left eye, but with a good recovery after surgical treatment. We reported a case of a 22-year-old patient with a sudden and painless decrease of visual acuity on the left eye, a month after a car accident, which led to the laceration of the right globe. At first, the patient received only medical treatment because he refused any surgical intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVasculitis is a heterogeneous group of diseases that implies the presence of necrosis and inflammation in the walls of blood vessels. The mechanisms involved are the following: immune complexes, endothelial cell antibodies, and anti-lysosomal antibodies. The immune reactions can be triggered by these mechanisms: immune complexes, endothelial cell antibodies, and anti-lysosomal antibodies.
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February 2019
To evaluate the difficulties, complications and outcome of cataract surgery in patients with complicated cataract after anterior uveitis. A retrospective study on 37 patients who suffered phacoemulsification surgery for post-uveitis complicated cataract in the period 2009-2014 was performed. 43 eyes underwent surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe are presenting the case of a patient who was clinically diagnosed with subconjunctival ocular dirofilariasis, confirmed by the parasitological examination. The treatment consisted in the surgical extraction of the parasite, a local treatment with antibiotics and steroidal anti-inflammatory mydriatic and general treatment with antihelminthic, antibiotic, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory drugs. The intraoperative and postoperative evolution of the case was favorable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPterygium is characterized by the thickening of the bulbar conjunctiva and the invasion of the cornea from the sclerocorneal limbus to the central portion of the cornea. Pterygium produces corneal deformation, which extends toward the central portion of the cornea. The visual disorders depend on the corneal extent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the results of a study on patients with cataract and primary open angle glaucoma who suffered lens extraction for cataract. We analise the effects of the lens extraction on the level of intraocular pressure at this patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe issue reveals the results of a study on 43 patients which suffered conbined glaucoma-cataract surgery. We present patients evolution and the complications which can occur.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The study reveals the incision's dimension impact on the the values of the postoperative induced astigmatism after cataract phacoemulsification surgery.
Method: The study involved 648 patients who have suffered cataract surgery by phacoemulsification.
Results: The postoperative induced astigmatism has lower values as the incision's dimension is lower The astigmatism takes place after cataracts with hard nucleus.
This report presents the results of a study on 34 patients with neovascular glaucoma. We analyse the difficulties and the results of the management of this severe form of glaucoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxoplasma gondii is the most frequent cause of chorioretinitis in immunocompetent patients. This paper highlights the case of a 15 years old girl, an immunocompetent patient, with an active chorioretinal focus in the LE and a chorioretinal scar in the RE. Serologically, the IgG antiToxoplasma titre is increased, but the IgM antibodies are negative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors present a female case diagnosed with Gorlin syndrome before admission to the Ophthalmology clinic. There are presented types of diagnosis, evolution and treatment in this case.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the results of a research on 74 patients with thrombosis of a retinal vein branch, showing the factors which influence the functional outcome of this patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this issue we present the importance of OCT in the diagnosis of macular cones dystrophy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe drusen of the optic nerve head is a relative rare occurrence in ophthalmologic practice, but it induce more or less important functional alterations. In this issue we present some characteristics of visual field impairment present at the patients with drusen of optic nerve head.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the results of a study on patients with neovascular glaucoma. We analyse the difficulties that occur in the management of this severe form of glaucoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the case of a patient which present bilateral macular pigmentary epitheliopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the case of a patient which presents monolateral chorioretinitis caused by Toxocara canis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntraocular foreign bodies are grave ophthalmic emergencies. In this issue we present the complications that have been reported to the patients with intraocular foreign bodies admitted in the Ophthalmological Hospital from Cluj-Napoca between 1998-2002.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the results of a study on patients with acute angle closure glaucoma. We analyse the functional disturbances and their long term evolution, and we show some risk factors which lead to severe functional disturbances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis issue presents the results of cristalin extraction in myopic eyes, analysing especially the postoperatory visual acuity and refraction. Some particularities of lens extraction in myopic eyes are pointed and the place of lens extraction as a method of refractive surgery of myopic eyes is analysed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetinal neovascularization (NVR) is a common complication of diabetes, which can cause legal blindness. This article presents the results of a study on 32 diabetic patients with NVR treated by DIODE LASER panretinal fotocoagulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper presents the clinical course and the problems appeared in making positive and etiological diagnosis for three cases of oculomotor disorders with diplopia, in adult patients. These are two cases of thyroid ophthalmopathy and one of myasthenia gravis. Atypical evolution in one case of thyroid ophthalmopathy and in that one with myasthenia gravis, made difficult the diagnosis and requested complex investigations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors have made a retrospective study of 161 cases of herpetic keratitis. 121 cases of them have been superficial herpetic keratitis and 40 of them discoid forms. 72 cases of superficial keratitis have been the first manifestation and 49 have relapsed.
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