USE OF A CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITOR IN X-LINKED RETINOSCHISIS: Effect on Cystic-Appearing Macular Lesions and Visual Acuity.

Purpose: To evaluate changes in cystic-appearing macular lesions and visual acuity in patients with X-linked retinoschisis while being treated with a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 68 eyes from 36 patients between the ages of 5 years and 61 years with X-linked retinoschisis were monitored while on a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor. Macular cystic-appearing lesions were monitored with optical coherence tomography.

[Clinico-diagnostic significance of the determination of bile acids in chronic liver diseases].

Certain conjugated biliary acids (total pool - choliglycine - sulpholytic choliglycine) and the following haematochemical parameters: total bilirubin and its direct quota, alkaline phosphatase, albumin, prothrombin activity, gamma globulin, oxalacetic and pyruvic transaminase were radioimmunologically (RIA) studied in 115 subjects. Subjects were divided into the following subgroups: --20 normal controls; --20 cases of persistent chronic hepatitis; --20 cases of active chronic hepatitis; --15 cases of A.C.