Assessment of short-term intraocular pressure parameters in phakic and pseudophakic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate intraocular pressure peaks in phakic and pseudophakic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.

Method: Overall, 40 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma were assessed. Of these, 20 patients were phakic and 20 pseudophakic.

Profile of pediatric eye trauma at Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal (HBDF), Brasília, Brazil.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of ocular trauma in children at the HBDF emergency department.

Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. We evaluated 103 cases of ocular trauma in children less than 15 years between July 2012 and January 2013.

[Using of Cells Analyser software in the study of image of corneal specular microscope endothelial samples].

Purpose: To describe differences between number of cells, evaluated endothelial area and relative error comparing endothelial samples from one endothelial image with endothelial samples obtained by guidance of a specific software, with number of cells and images as many as necessary.

Methods: A transversal study was performed, comparing the endothelial samples with and without intervention of the software. The sample consisted of 157 eyes.

[Oral flaxseed oil (Linum usitatissimum) in the treatment for dry-eye Sjögren's syndrome patients].

Purpose: To evaluate if oral flaxseed oil (Linum usitatissimum), which reduces the inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis, may help keratoconjunctivitis sicca's treatment in Sjögren's syndrome patients.

Methods: In a randomized clinical trial, 38 female patients with rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erithematosus associated with keratoconjunctivitis sicca and Sjögren's syndrome were consecutively selected from patients of the Department of Rheumatology of the Amazonas University Hospital. Keratoconjunctivitis sicca diagnosis was based on a dry-eye symptom survey score (Ocular Surface Disease Index - OSDI), Schirmer-I test, fluorescein break-up time, 1% Rose Bengal staining of ocular surface measured by the van Bijsterveld scale.

[Study of ocular fungal microbiota in patients with Hansen's disease and in individuals who deal with them].

Purpose: To study the conjunctival fungal flora of patients with leprosy who live in the colony hospital and of those who deal with "Hansen" patients.

Methods: Sixty-one eyes (61 patients) with Hansen's disease and twenty-five healthy eyes (25 individuals) of individuals who deal with patients were investigated.

Results: Conjunctival fungi growth occurred in 19.

[Conjunctival bacilloscopy in leprosy diagnosis and follow-up].

Purpose: To identify Mycobacterium leprae in ocular conjunctivae and evaluate conjunctival bacilloscopy as leprosy diagnosis and follow-up test.

Methods: We used the superior tarsal conjunctiva scraping technique in 52 newly diagnosed leprosy patients between July and September 2004 at the "Oculistas Associados de Brasília", in Brasília, DF, Brazil, and compared the conjunctival bacilloscopy with skin bacilloscopy.

Results: Both the conjunctival bacilloscopy index (CBI) and skin bacilloscopy index (SBI) showed correlation since Pearson's r and Cohen kappa measure of agreement were respectively 76.

[Prevalence of dry eye in Hansen's disease patients from a colony hospital in Goiânia, Brazil].

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of dry eye in Hansen's disease patients from the "Hospital de Dermatologia Sanitária de Goiânia".

Methods: The sample of the present study included 70 patients with Hansen's disease, from the "Hospital de Dermatologia Sanitária de Goiânia", and 30 controls, from the "Fundação Banco de Olhos de Goiás", both located in Goiânia-GO, Brazil. Ophthalmologic examination and Schirmer I, break-up time (BUT) and rose Bengal staining tests were carried out for all patients in a single evaluation.