Unusual Trigger for Contractile Movements of Optic Disc in Peripapillary Staphyloma.

Purpose: To report a case of contractile movements of the optic disc in peripapillary staphyloma.

Methods: A 65-year-old female received a comprehensive ophthalmic examination, multimodal imaging, and computed tomography.

Results: The patient was diagnosed with peripapillary staphyloma in her right eye.

Apparent prevention of neural tube defects by periconceptional vitamin supplementation. 1981.

An earlier preliminary paper is expanded. Women who had given birth to one or more infants with a neural tube defect were recruited into a trial of periconceptional vitamin supplementation. Two hundred mothers attending five centres were fully supplemented (FS), 50 were partially supplemented (PS), and 300 were unsupplemented (US).

The epidemiology of myotonic dystrophy in Northern Ireland.

Multiple sources of ascertainment were used to identify families with myotonic dystrophy in Northern Ireland. A total of 59 families with 188 living affected members were identified. The prevalence rate was 119.