Primary orbital neuroblastoma with intraocular extension.

Neuroblastoma is an undifferentiated malignancy of primitive neuroblasts. Neuroblastoma is among the most common solid tumors of childhood. Orbital neuroblastoma is typically a metastatic tumor.

Relationship between systemic hypertension, perfusion pressure and glaucoma: a comparative study in an adult Indian population.

Aims: To study the relationship between blood pressure (BP), intraocular pressure (IOP), mean ocular perfusion pressure (MOPP) and primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in patients with hypertension and compare it to a control group of normotensives.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Materials And Methods: A total of 108 subjects with primary hypertension and 100 age-matched controls without hypertension were enrolled for the study.

Pseudoexfoliation on pseudophakos.

We report three patients with deposition of pseudoexfoliation (PXF) material on intraocular lens years after uneventful cataract surgery. PXF was not present before the cataract surgery. The PXF material was found on the anterior surface of the intraocular lens in the first patient and on the posterior surface as well in the other two patients.

Nine years' review on preseptal and orbital cellulitis and emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus in a tertiary hospital in India.

Context: Preseptal cellulitis is the commonest orbital disease which frequently needs to be differentiated from orbital cellulitis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment with appropriate antibiotics can prevent vision loss and life-threatening complications of orbital cellulitis.

Aims: To describe the clinical profile of cases with preseptal and orbital cellulitis admitted to a tertiary care hospital during a period of nine years.

A case to illustrate the role of ophthalmologist in systemic lupus erythematosus.

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) affects the eye as part of the disease or due to the drugs used in therapy. Ocular involvement is seen in one third of the patients with SLE. SLE is rare in India and found less frequently in males and children.

Retinopathy in preeclampsia: association with birth weight and uric acid level.

Purpose: In a retrospective study of patients with preeclampsia and patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) who delivered at term, the association of retinopathy with various clinical and laboratory manifestations and fetal birth weight was evaluated.

Methods: Medical records of patients with preeclampsia and patients with PIH who delivered at term between January 2003 and December 2004 were reviewed. Patients with preterm delivery, eclampsia, intrauterine fetal death, congenital defect in the fetus, and other systemic disorders were excluded.

Case reports of three patients showing optic nerve head melanocytoma and systemic hypertension.

Purpose: To report the association of optic disk melanocytoma with systemic hypertension.

Cases: Ocular examination of 3 asymptomatic hypertensive patients revealed a pigmented lesion over the optic disk. After clinical examination and radiological evaluation a diagnosis of optic disk melanocytoma was made.

Optic nerve entrance coloboma associated with situs inversus.

A rare case of optic nerve entrance coloboma associated with situs inversus is reported.