Visual acuity and anterior segment findings in chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Purpose: To report risk factors for decreased visual acuity in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) diagnosed after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and to describe the prevalence of anterior segment findings in these patients.

Methods: Retrospective noncomparative study of 429 consecutive patients with cGVHD. Outcome measures include visual acuity, Schirmer scores, and ocular surface abnormalities.

Cataracts after bone marrow transplantation: long-term follow-up of adults treated with fractionated total body irradiation.

Purpose: To determine the risk of, and risk factors for, developing cataracts after bone marrow transplantation.

Methods And Materials: Four hundred and ninety-two adults who underwent bone marrow transplantation in Seattle were followed for 2 to 18 (median, 6) years. Before transplantation, patients received a preparative regimen of chemotherapy plus total body irradiation (TBI) (n = 407) or chemotherapy alone, without TBI (n = 85).

Glaucoma. A general perspective.

Glaucoma is the most prevalent disease ophthalmologists deal with. It affects the elderly more commonly and has a higher incidence in blacks. This review covers basic precepts of the disease including tips to help the general physician identify suspect cases.

Color vision testing.

1. Color deficiency occurs in about 8% of the population, due to alterations in the chemistry of one of the three receptive pigments for colored light, or the substitution of one pigment for another in the photoreceptor cones. 2.

Optic nerve head axonal transport in rabbits with hereditary glaucoma.

Rabbits with hereditary glaucoma develop ocular changes that resemble human congenital glaucoma and buphthalmia. The inheritance is autosomal recessive (bu). Previous research was performed primarily on albino bu/bu rabbits that were unhealthy and bred poorly.