Late Surgical Correction of Longstanding Constant Strabismus in Adults: Is Fusion Possible in All Successfully Aligned Patients?

Purpose: To determine whether late surgical correction provides fusion in adults who have constant strabismus beginning in early childhood.

Materials And Methods: This was a prospective study that included 34 consecutive adults with a history of early onset strabismus who had not previously undergone surgery. They were tested with the Bagolini striated glasses (BSG), Worth four-dot (W4D) test, cover test, and four-prism diopter (4-PD) test, preoperatively, and 6 weeks after surgery.

Congenital retinal macrovessel: atypical presentation using optical coherence tomography.

To describe a congenital retinal macrovessel with macular thickening. This case was investigated using fundus photography, fluorescein angiography, Spectralis optical coherence tomography and a 10-2 visual field test. A 23-year-old man was referred to our clinic with decreased vision in the right eye.

Intracameral Perfluoropropane (C(3)F(8)) Gas in the Repair of Extensive Descemet's Membrane Detachment During Phacoemulsification Surgery.

Descemet's membrane detachment (DMD) is one of the rare complications seen during or after cataract surgery. It can cause permanent corneal decompensation if untreated or not reattached spontaneously. A patient with an extensive DMD (involving approximately upper two-thirds of the cornea) during uncomplicated phacoemulsification surgery is reported.

Capsulorhexis in white cataract using a green-light endoillumination probe.

The authors describe a technique for performing a safe and controlled continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC) in white cataracts using the contrast-enhancing effect of green light from an endoillumination probe. After attaching a green filter to the endoillumination unit of the vitrectomy set, a CCC was performed under the green light of the endoillumination probe, which was placed on the periphery of the cornea in a manner that followed the tearing edge of the capsulorhexis. This technique may be an alternative to capsular dyes in performing a safe and controlled CCC in white cataracts.

Management of persistent glaucoma secondary to depot methylprednisolone.

This article describes two patients with recalcitrant ocular hypertension persisting 6 and 4 months, respectively, after periocular injection of methylprednisolone acetate despite maximum medical therapy. White sub-Tenon's plaques of residual methylprednisolone acetate were excised surgically and analyzed for steroid activity using spectrophotometry. In both cases, intraocular pressure was normalized promptly after surgical removal of visible steroid.

Laser suture lysis or releasable sutures after trabeculectomy.

Purpose: To compare the efficacy and complication rates of laser suture lysis (LSL) or releasable sutures techniques after trabeculectomy.

Materials And Methods: Forty-eight eyes of 43 consecutive patients with uncomplicated glaucoma who were recruited for primary trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 and group 2 comprised 27 and 21 eyes that were randomly assigned to a standard surgery and releasable suture groups, respectively.

Ocular trauma score in deadly weapon-related open-globe injuries.

Purpose: To assess prognostic value of the ocular trauma score (OTS) in deadly weapon-related open-globe injuries.

Design: Retrospective, interventional case series.

Methods: In 82 patients (88 eyes) with deadly weapon-related open-globe injuries, certain numerical values rendered to the OTS variables (visual acuity, rupture, endophthalmitis, perforating injury, retinal detachment, afferent pupillary defect) at presentation were summated and converted into OTS categories.

The efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen for the treatment of experimental uveitis induced in rabbits.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in the treatment of experimental uveitis induced in rabbits. It was hypothesized that HBO therapy improves the regression of experimental uveitis induced in rabbits.

Research Design And Methods: An experimental animal study was conducted on 48 rabbits (48 right eyes of these rabbits) to evaluate the effects of HBO therapy on endotoxin-induced acute anterior uveitis in rabbits.

Increase in central corneal thickness in dry and normal eyes with application of artificial tears: a new diagnostic and follow-up criterion for dry eye.

Aims: To investigate the effect of artificial tear application on central corneal thickness (CCT) in dry and normal eyes.

Methods: Forty eyes of 40 patients with symptomatic dry eyes and 20 eyes of 20 controls were included in the study. A combination artificial tear therapy was given to both groups for 1 week.

The association between hypermetropia and essential hypertension.

Purpose: To explore the relationship between the refractive state of the eye and high blood pressure in a representative population.

Design: Case-control study.

Methods: Three hundred twenty-one patients with essential hypertension (mean age 53.