[Thrombophlebitis of left cavernous sinus secondary to acute right sphenoid sinusitis].

Isolated sphenoid sinusitis is a rare, potentially destructive entity. Presenting symptoms are often vague and non-specific therefore the diagnosis is made late when complications have had already occurred. The most frequent complications of sinusitis are the neurological ones--being serious life--threatening conditions.

[Cataract surgery in diabetic patients].

Purpose: Analysis of functional results, per- and postoperative complications after cataract surgery in diabetic patients.

Material And Method: Retrospective study including 100 non-diabetic patients and 50 patients with type II diabetes, with extracapsular extraction and IOL implantation in the postoperator chamber followed for 10.3-7.

[The ocular hypotensive effect of the combination of latanoprost with dorzolamide].

Objective: To analyze the hypotensive effect and ocular tolerance produced by the association of a topic carbonic anhidraze inhibitor (dorzolamide--Trusopt) and a prostaglandin derivative (latanoprost--Xalatan) in the treatment of the hypertensive glaucomas.

Material And Method: The study includes two steps: STEP I: A double-blind randomized prospective study which includes 32 eyes with primary open angle glaucoma, divided in two groups: group A, in which Trusopt is administrated for 7 days and then Xalatan is associated for another 7 days and group B, in which the order is reversed: for the first 7 days only Xalatan is administrated and then for another 7 days, Trusopt is associated in the treatment. The intraocular pressure and the secondary effects were assessed daily.

[The effect of chronic beta-blocker treatment on the evolution of primary open-angle glaucoma].

Unlabelled: Comparative analysis of the results of the trabeculectomy in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) when it was chosen as a primary treatment and when was preceded by chronic use of topic beta-blockers.

Material And Method: Retrospective study of 59 patients (group A) with primary trabeculectomy and 42 patients (group B) with topic beta-blockers treatment for at least 3 years subsequent to trabeculectomy was performed. The average postoperative follow-up period was 3 years and 5 months.

[Primary trabeculectomy in the surgery of primary open angle glaucoma].

Objective: Comparative analysis of the results of trabeculectomy in the surgery of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) as the primary therapeutical approach and after the medical treatment failure.

Materials And Method: Retrospective study including two therapeutical groups: A (59 patients) with primary trabeculectomy; and B (60 patients) with trabeculectomy following a medical treatment failure; mean follow-up period was 3 years and 5 months.

Results: Postoperative drop in intraocular pressure was similar in the two groups; there is no statistical significant difference between the two groups regarding stationary disease (76.

[Intra- and postoperative use of 5-fluorouracil in the surgical treatment of refractory glaucoma].

Objective: Analysis of the safety and efficiency of various modalities of 5-FU administration in the surgery of refractory glaucoma.

Materials And Method: A prospective, randomized study including 36 patients with refractory glaucoma who received 5-FU in the following protocols: group A (10 patients)--intraoperative application of 50 mg 5-FU, group B (12 patients)--postoperative subconjunctival injections of 5 mg 5-FU, group C (14 patients)--intra and postoperative administration of 5-FU. Mean follow-up interval is 6 months.

[Postoperative flat anterior chamber. The therapeutic approach].

The study of clinical entities followed by postoperative flat anterior chamber and their therapeutical possibilities. Retrospective study of all flat anterior chamber cases in a series of 315 patients operated for glaucoma. There were 16 flat anterior chamber cases with ocular hypotony, 3 cases with pupillary block and 9 cases with ciliary block.

[The progression of primary operated glaucoma].

Objective: Study of the causes responsible for glaucoma progression in patients operated for glaucoma.

Material And Method: A series of 185 patients operated for primary open angle glaucoma were followed up for a mean period of 3.2 years.

[Late postcontusion secondary glaucoma].

The investigation of 33 patients with late postcontusional glaucoma subjected to surgery and followed up for 25 +/- 8.24 months has revealed: the interval accident-surgery is shorter in the close-angle combined forms; the essential mechanisms responsible for glaucoma occurrence are: the alteration of trabecular meshwork (for open-angle glaucoma) and pupillary block (for close angle glaucoma); simple cases required antiglaucoma surgery (trabeculectomy, peripheral iridectomy) and the mixed ones required combined (trabeculectomy, lens extraction, lens implant) or sequential surgeries (antiglaucoma surgery, vitrectomy etc); the glaucomatous process was stopped in 83.4% of the open-angle glaucoma cases and progressed in 23.

[The surgical results in traumatic cataract].

The retrospective analysis of the postoperative course in 204 traumatic cataracts (140 isolated, simple cataracts and 64 aggravated ones) showed an apparent functional improvement in the simple cases (preoperative and postoperative visual acuity 0.0139 and 0.8520, respectively); the incidence of postoperative detachment of retina was of 4.