Background Normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is a clinical entity that poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The study elaborates ocular and systemic risk factors of NTG in the South Indian population. It determines the correlation between risk factors and severity of glaucomatous damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroblastoma is an undifferentiated malignancy of primitive neuroblasts. Neuroblastoma is among the most common solid tumors of childhood. Orbital neuroblastoma is typically a metastatic tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects the eye as part of the disease or due to the drugs used in therapy. Ocular involvement is seen in one third of the patients with SLE. SLE is rare in India and found less frequently in males and children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: In a retrospective study of patients with preeclampsia and patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) who delivered at term, the association of retinopathy with various clinical and laboratory manifestations and fetal birth weight was evaluated.
Methods: Medical records of patients with preeclampsia and patients with PIH who delivered at term between January 2003 and December 2004 were reviewed. Patients with preterm delivery, eclampsia, intrauterine fetal death, congenital defect in the fetus, and other systemic disorders were excluded.
Purpose: To report the association of optic disk melanocytoma with systemic hypertension.
Cases: Ocular examination of 3 asymptomatic hypertensive patients revealed a pigmented lesion over the optic disk. After clinical examination and radiological evaluation a diagnosis of optic disk melanocytoma was made.
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