[Corneal extracellular matrix].

The paper analyzes the structural and functional state of the corneal extracellular matrix (ECM). It presents the currently available data on the role of connective tissue in health and during corneal pathological processes. Numerous morphological studies have provided evidence that the extracellular contact mechanisms characterized by extracellular and matrix-cell interactions are fundamental processes of corneal immunobiology.

[A surgical treatment for neovascular terminal glaucoma (preliminary communication)].

In 40 patients with terminal neovascular glaucoma of various genesis (visual acuity 0 to wrong light projection), 4 rectus muscles were tightly ligated at the insertion site of their strings to the sclera of the eyeball with silk threads under local anesthesia. The threads were not postoperatively removed and left under the conjunctiva (Invention Patent No. 2286752 of November 10, 2006).

[Intraocular correction of aphakia in patients after kidney transplantation].

It was for the first time in the ophthalmologic practice that a possibility was demonstrated to ensure relatively high and stable functional results, in a significant number of patients with transplanted kidney (TK), related with different-type cataract extraction and with implantation of a variety of PMMA IOLs, i.e. model of B.

[Laser-correlation spectroscopy of the lacrimal fluid in the evaluation of the semiotic nature of postoperative inflammatory reaction and the degree of its severity in patients with diabetes mellitus after intraocular lens implantation].

Lavages of the lacrimal fluid were examined, before operation and immediately after operation, in 47 patients with diabetes mellitus and with pseudophakia in order to define the possibilities of the method of laser-correlation spectroscopy (LCS) in evaluating the semiotic nature and a severity degree of postoperative inflammation. It was found that, when the subjective symptomatology of inflammation in the LCS spectrums intensified, there was a higher contribution to the light dissemination of particles with a hydrodynamic diameter of 600 nm and more (i.e.

[An express-method for predicting fibrinous iridocyclitis in the early postoperative period in artiphakia].

The authors investigated the possibility of using the level of preoperative blood monocytosis as an express method for predicting fibrinous iridocyclitis in planned artiphakia. Extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular correction (B. N.