The RELIEF study: Tolerability and efficacy of preservative-free latanoprost in the treatment of glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Purpose:: To assess tolerability and efficacy following a switch from benzalkonium chloride-latanoprost to preservative-free latanoprost in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Methods:: A total of 140 patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension controlled with benzalkonium chloride-latanoprost for at least 3 months were switched to treatment with preservative-free latanoprost. Assessments were made on days 15, 45, and 90 (D15, D45, and D90) and included best-corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure, slit lamp examination, fluorescein staining, tear film break-up time, patient symptom evaluation, and subjective estimation of tolerability.

[Assessment of blood flow in retinal pigment degeneration].

Degeneratio pigmentosa retinae (RP) is one of the most common inherited retinal disease. The authors analyzed the blood flow in the central retinal artery using the DRG Retina Doppler. The blood flow velocity depending on the perimetry was also measured.

[Flicker perimetry (CFF) in patients with lens opacities--first report].

Purpose: Comparison of standard W/W and CFF perimetry in patients with cataract and lens opacities.

Material And Methods: Visual field was measured on Octopus 301 perimeter with option flicker perimetry. W/W and CFF perimetry (Program G1 in TOP strategy) was performed in 44 eyes with cataract and lens opacities.

[The state of the visual system in the isolated form of retinitis pigmentosa or in Usher syndrome considering examination of retinal blood flow in the middle retinal artery with Doppler].

In this paper the authors compare a group of patients suffering from isolated form of retinitis pigmentosa with these with Usher syndrome.

[Flicker perimetry (CFF) in glaucoma diagnosis].

Purpose: Evaluation of CFF perimetry results in patients with suspected glaucoma.

Material And Methods: Visual field was measured on Octopus 301 perimeter with option "flicker perimetry". 49 patients (98 eyes) with suspected glaucoma were tested.

[Retrospective evaluation of eyes with high progressive myopia in children and youth ten years after Snyder and Thompson's scleroplasty].

Purpose: Of the study was, to assess the safety and efficiency of scleral reinforcement after Snyder and Thompson surgery.

Material And Methods: The scleroplasty was performed on 129 eyes of 75 children with progressive myopia from 6 to 10 years of age. The control study group included 40 eyes of 25 children with similar age, mean eyeball axial length and refraction.