[The efficacy of Cairns trabeculectomy in open-angle glaucoma].

The authors report the conclusions of their analysis of 308 operated eyes for primary open-angle glaucoma with Cairns trabeculectomy procedure. The analysed period is 1991-1995--and the patients have been operated in the Ophthalmology Clinic of the University Hospital of Bucharest. The work contains: 1) General epidemiologic characters: number of eyes, number of patients, sex, age.

[Contact lens correction in aphakia in children].

The paper presents our experience in correcting with contact lens the children's aphakia. Since February 1990, soft contact lenses daily ported have been used in children's aphakia. The study included 17 children with ages, between 2 and 9 year old, from which 9 cases were of congenital cataract, 6 of traumatic cataract and 2 of Marfan syndrome.

[The therapeutic effect of acyclovir in herpetic keratitis].

In Ophthalmological Clinic of the District Bucharest Hospital, the authors studied 59 patients with herpetic keratitis, and keratouveitis treated with Zovirax (acyclovir). They try to prove with clinical arguments the efficacity of this treatment in different forms of herpetic keratitis. The authors consider the acyclovir like the election therapy of ocular herpes, because it determines the increase of ocular vision in almost cases with short average hospitalization.