Retinal oximetry in normal and amblyopic children: a pilot study.

Purpose: To study the retinal vascular oxygen saturation in amblyopic eyes and compare them to unaffected fellow eyes and eyes of normal subjects.

Methods: A total of 32 amblyopic, 24 normal and 13 fellow eyes of patients below age of 18 were enrolled in this prospective observation study. Retinal oximetry was performed using the Oxymap T1 retinal oximeter.

Diagnosis and management of primary congenital lens cyst.

We report the case of a 2-year-old girl with an unusual unilateral congenital cystic lesion of the crystalline lens in the right eye. We describe the clinical features, ultrasound biomicroscopy, hypothesis for the possible origin of the cyst, and management of this rare and previously undescribed developmental anomaly.