[Correlation between central corneal thickness and axial length in patients with glaucoma and normal eyes].

Purpose: To evaluate and to correlate the central corneal thickness with the ocular axial length in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma, primary angle-closure glaucoma and individuals with normal eyes.

Methods: The sample was composed of 94 patients' eyes, divided into three groups constituted of 33 eyes of 33 primary open-angle glaucoma patients, 30 eyes of 30 primary angle-closure glaucoma patients and 31 normal eyes of 31 individuals. The central corneal thickness and the axial length were measured by ultrasonic pachymeter and biometry by A-scan ultrasound, respectively.

[Analysis of the life quality of infectious and non-infectious patients with uveitis using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire].

Purpose: To evaluate the life quality of patients with infectious and non-infectious uveitis evaluated at the uveitis service of the Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho-UFRJ, using the NEI-VFQ-25 questionnaire in order to clarify the importance of uveitis diagnosis and treatment as well as its consequences to visual and social functions of the patients.

Methods: Prospective study of 30 patients with uveitis, who were divided into two groups according to the etiology, infectious and non-infectious, with the NEI-VFQ-25 form that evaluates the life quality regarding general and visual health which was applied twice to each patient.

Results: The main cause of infectious uveitis was toxoplasmosis, and of the non-infectious was Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome.