Publications by authors named "Paulo H Limeira-Soares"
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of the tertiary care delivered to patients with vitreoretinal diseases in a defined urban population; to substantiate the planning and allocation of resources in order to improve the tertiary eye care delivery system in a specific area.
Methods: Data were collected from consecutive first-time patients between June 1, 2003 and July 31, 2004 in the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Problem-solving capacity values were calculated for vitreoretinal surgery and photocoagulation.
Purpose: To determine the retention of knowledge along the years after certification of physicians as ophthalmology specialists.
Methods: The physicians, former ophthalmology residents, were selected at the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, and randomly allocated to three groups of seven individuals, according to the time as specialists. Group 1 consisted of one-year specialists, group 2 of five-year specialists and group 3 of ten-year specialists.
Purpose: To report a patient with morning glory syndrome in combination with posterior pituitary ectopia and to emphasize the need for early recognition of this syndrome as an important step towards the diagnosis and treatment of the systemic anomalies that may be associated with it.
Methods: We present a 7-year-old boy who showed short stature, nystagmus, inward deviation and low vision. Ophthalmological and general physical examinations, further endocrine evaluation and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and sella turcica were performed.