Unlabelled: Multiple sclerosis (SM) is an idiopathic, demyelinating CNS disease, with often ocular manifestations. Besides the most common SM ocular manifestation-optic neuritis, particular attention should be paid to uveitis. It is estimated that uveitis is ten times more frequent in population with SM than on population without it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of our work is to present clinical and histological data of the case of severe sympathetic ophthalmia (SO). Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare, bilateral, non-necrotizing granulomatous panuveitis that follows penetrating injury to one eye. SO is a potentially blinding condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study presents the case history of a 58-year-old woman with a diagnosed spontaneous carotid-cavernous fistula on the left side and mild hypertension.
The First Signs Of This Disease Were: Headache, double vision, proptosis, ptosis of the left upper lid, paresis of the left abducens nerve, conjunctival edema, dilatation and tortuosity of the vessels in conjunctiva and episclera. In the course of this disease a massive central retinal vein occlusion occurred in the left eye.
Purpose: The main purpose of the study is the evaluation of the dependence between lens thickness in eyes with cataract and glaucoma and the intraocular pressure after cataract extraction with posterior chamber lens implantation.
Material And Methods: 138 eyes with cataract and glaucoma were examined. Patients were divided into three groups according to the type of glaucoma: I open angle glaucoma II closed angle glaucoma III glaucoma with pseudoexfoliation syndrome All patients received preoperatively drugs reducing intraocular hypertension.