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.

[Ocular infections of the elderly].

A CLINICAL ASPECT DEPENDING ON THE PHYSIOPATHOGENESIS: Ocular infections are a frequent motive for ophthalmological consultations in geriatric settings because of the mechanical factors related to age (modifications in palpebral dynamics and lacrymal function) and in local and general immune factors leading to the rapid and/or more severe development of infections. The mechanism of microbial contamination of the eye also determines the clinical damage: predominantly local (dirty hands, traumas) with involvement of the surface tissues (conjunctive and cornea) or general, hematogenic or neurogenic, frequently at the origin of more internal infections (iris, choroid, retina, optical nerve). CONJUNCTIVITIS AND KERATITIS: These provoke reddening of the eyes, tears and above all pain when the corneal epithelium is involved.

Phacoemulsification combined with silicone oil removal through the posterior capsulorhexis tear.

Purpose: To evaluate phacoemulsification combined with silicone oil removal through the posterior capsulorhexis tear.

Method: The records of 20 patients with cataract after silicone oil repair of retinal detachment with giant retinal tear or complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy were reviewed. All eyes underwent phacoemulsification, posterior capsulorhexis, aspiration of silicone oil with an irrigation-aspiration hand piece, and intraocular lens implantation into the capsular bag.