Contact transscleral cyclophotocoagulation in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma: a five-year follow-up.

Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy of contact transscleral cyclophotocoagulation (TSCPC) performed after panretinal photocoagulation and cryoapplication in patients with angle closure neovascular glaucoma.

Material/methods: Thirty eyes of 30 patients with angle closure neovascular glaucoma were enrolled (15 women and 15 men, mean age: 55+/-21 years). Diode TSCPC was performed in all patients after panretinal photocoagulation and cryotherapy.

[Diode laser in secondary glaucoma in children--long-term results].

Unlabelled: This paper presents effectiveness and safety of transscleral contact cyclophotocoagulation with diode laser (TSCPC) in secondary glaucoma in children. Fifteen eyes of 15 children at the age from 4 to 18 years were examined. Majority of patients was aphakic after congenital and traumatic cataract extraction.

Relation between smoking and levels of DDT and dieldrin in human fat.

The adipose tissue of humans with known patterns of cigarette smoking was collected during 1973-74 and analyzed for DDT components and dieldrin. Although smokers are exposed to high levels of insecticides from smoke of cigarettes and some of these compounds can be stored in adipose tissue, it could not be demonstrated that a relationship exists between smoking habit and residual levels of DDT found in fat. Smokers seem able, through induction of enzymes by substances in tobacco smoke, to metabolize these insecticides at a rate approximately equal to the rate of their intake in the smoke.