[Posttraumatic hyphema?].

The authors present the case of a patient with ocular pain and visual impairment after an ocular trauma. The ophthalmologic exam and the complementary exams show atypical aspects of the traumatic ocular pathology.

[Treatment of thyroid ophthalmopathy--a clinical case].

Thyroid ophthalmopathy is a relatively frequent pathology. Usually it is a self-limited affection but same cases develop visual-threatening complication. The management of thyroid disorders necessitates both treatment of the systemic thyroid disease and management of the thyroid eye disease in order to alleviate the ocular discomfort, to prevent disfigurement and to avoid the visual threatening complications.

[Amniotic membrane transplantation in palliative treatment of bullous keratopathy].

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of amniotic membrane transplantation for the improvement of symptoms in bullous keratopathy.

Material And Method: Prospective study. 14 patients were operated between 01.

[Cataract surgery in an eye with intraocular tumor].

This case present the consequences of performing the cataract surgery on an eye with intraocular tumor, pointing the importance of a detailed and complete examination, even for the benign and easy to diagnostic diseases.

[Ocular manifestation in amiodarone toxicity--case report].

The authors present the case of a patient having both toxic keratopathy and maculopathy after a medication with amiodarone. Some of the ocular damages are irreversible, even while amiodarone medication is stopped, which recommends the screening as an efficient tracking method for ocular reversible injuries, avoiding major loss of visual function.

[Cataract surgery in Romania--2003].

Aim: to evaluate cataract surgery performed in Romania analyzing: --the number of cataract surgery performed in 2003; --the surgical technique used: intracapsular extraction, extracapsular extraction, phacoemulsification; --the number and type of intraocular lenses used; --the number of ophthalmologists that performed cataract surgery;

Material And Method: --a questionnaire was sent to all ophthalmologists which do cataract surgery.

Results: --38,000 surgeries for cataract were performed in 2003; --the surgical techniques used were : Phacoemulsification (18,000 cases), classic extracapsular extraction ( 19,000 cases) and intracapsular extraction (1000 cases); --28,500 rigid and 8,000 foldable intraocular lenses were implanted; - 223 ophthalmologists perform cataract surgery in Romania.