The effect of learning curve on the surgical outcome of viscocanalostomy.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of learning curve on the surgical outcome of viscocanalostomy.

Methods: Retrospective, interventional study. Chart review of the first consecutive open-angle glaucoma cases that received viscocanalostomy in 1 institution between July 1996 and June 2000.

Expression of alphasmooth muscle actin in lens epithelia from human donors and cataract patients.

In order to re-evaluate functional implications of alphasmooth muscle actin (alphaSMA) expression in lens epithelial cells (LECs), we assessed its presence in donor lenses without visible opacities (DON), lenses with mature cataract (CAT), and cataractous lenses with posterior subcapsular opacities (PSO) or anterior subcapsular fibrosis (ASF). The levels of alphaSMA and transforming growth factor-beta2 (TGFbeta2) mRNAs were measured by classical and real-time PCR. Expression and structural organisation of alphaSMA protein and beta-catenin were monitored by Western blotting and confocal microscopy.

First steps toward noninvasive intraocular pressure monitoring with a sensing contact lens.

Purpose: To present a novel and minimally invasive approach to intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring based on a sensing contact lens.

Methods: The key element of this measurement method is a soft contact lens with an embedded microfabricated strain gauge allowing the measurement of changes in corneal curvature correlated to variations in IOP. A prototype of this sensing contact lens was adapted and tested on enucleated porcine eyes.

Indocyanine green angiographic features in endogenous Candida chorioretinis.

Background: To describe indocyanine green (ICG) angiography (ICGA) findings and clinical features of endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis.

Patients And Methods: Two patients (a female 62 years, a male 31 years) were addressed to investigate a progressive unilateral visual loss. Slit-lamp examination disclosed a macular chorioretinitis.